Re: [arch-general] [DRAFT] Deprecation of the ABS tool and rsync server

abs certainly was a bit part of the Arch KISS philosophy, with a single command mirroring the build system to /var. Was darn convenient to... Hard to see how the 84M (uncompressed) it requires was that big of a cost issue, but I guess it adds up.

You can simply clone svn2git mirrors, as mentioned in the post. Eats more space in general (ca. 250MB here) but seems faster than rsync.

So from now on, we use 'asp export pkgname'. Is it recommended that we `sudo rm -rf /var/abs` at the end of the month? It doesn't look like it will have any use under the new way of doing things.

It won't be possible to update old style ABS soon, so 'rm -rf' is the way to go. Bartłomiej