On Sun, Jul 6, 2008 at 9:01 PM, Allan McRae <allan@archlinux.org> wrote:
Travis Willard wrote:
On Sun, Jul 6, 2008 at 1:47 PM, Travis Willard <travis@archlinux.org> wrote:
On Sun, Jul 6, 2008 at 10:31 AM, Allan McRae <allan@archlinux.org> wrote:
Travis Willard wrote:
On Sun, Jul 6, 2008 at 5:33 AM, Allan McRae <allan@archlinux.org> wrote:
Hi all,
So looking at abs I noticed it at some stage had the ability to sync single repos:
> > abs --help > >
Arch Build System 2.1 -- synchronization utility usage: /usr/bin/abs [options] [repository1 [repository2 ...]]
<snip> If no argument is given, abs will synchronize the repositories specified in /etc/abs.conf.
But this no longer works... I'm guessing this came about with the switch to rsync. Given it has been a while since the switch to rsync, I'm concluding that nobody actually uses this and will remove it rather than fix it. Any objections?
Um, actually, that feature came about WITH the switch to rsync. How doesn't it work?
Well, "abs core" syncs every repo, including the ones I have disabled in /etc/abs.conf. It is because repos are disabled from being synced, not enabled. Am I doing something wrong?
Doesn't sound like you're doing anything wrong. :/ In any case, I don't think stripping that feature out is the proper way to go - it shoud be fixed if it's broken, not removed.
Wait wait - are you talking about JUST the command-line functionality? ie. keeping the REPOS=(...) abs.conf syntax, but just removing the
abs core
syntax?
I suppose that works - I thought you were planning on stripping the repo-selection feature entirely.
I was talking about JUST the command-line functionality. That is the bit the is broken and apparently no-one uses. Selection from abs.conf will definitely stay.
OK, in that case I'm not so opposed. ;) If it looks like an easy fix, go for it, otherwise I don't think it'd hurt to lose. In the future, I was thinking some kind of configuration or syntax to allow people to sync a predefined list of packages, instead of whole repos. For example, if someone wanted to rebuild only wine, they should be able to say "abs extra/wine" or have PKGS=(extra/wine) in abs.conf and not be required to sync everything. Dunno if that sounds like a good idea to you or not, but people have requested on the forums some method to sync single packages (usually as an argument to allow anon svn access)