On 4/12/08, Travis Willard <travis@archlinux.org> wrote:
May as well tell the people what's happening with ABS. Here's an announcement draft:
-----------8<-----------------8<-------- ABS 2.0 In Testing
With version 2, ABS has moved to an rsync method for pulling the ABS tree, as part of the changes that needed to be made for our internal move from CVS to SVN as our source control mechanism. This means a few things:
1) cvsup/csup are no longer required 2) /etc/abs/supfile.* are no longer required 3) Anyone opening ports for use with ABS will now need to open port 837, the rsync port
Also, since category information (ie. base, devel, editors) is no longer stored in the repo, makeworld has been updated - check makeworld -h for more info. -----------8<-----------------8<--------
3) For ABS users who filter *outbound* traffic: Please note that rsync uses a different port than the previous abs+cvsup combination. Rsync uses port 837, so make sure to adjust any firewall rules accordingly.