On 03/25/2017 07:24 AM, Bartłomiej Piotrowski wrote:

Hi all,

Allan complained yesterday that ABS is apparently broken. Turns out that most likely it is broken at least since 2016-07-07.

The script received no changes since 2012-09-07 and the main advantage it brings is an easy way to pull all PKGBUILDs. But we also provide public Subversion and Git repositories. Initial svn checkout for community and packages takes less than 3 minutes on my rather slow connection (for European standards); obviously subsequent updates are faster. Full git clone is slow, but shallow one takes ca. 10 seconds (for both).

If someone needs to checkout just one package, svn has sparse checkouts and for git, Dave wrote asp[1]. This brings the question, what is the point of keeping it running?

Bartłomiej

[1] https://github.com/falconindy/asp

If we are deprecating ABS (which is yay!) then can we get a stable release of asp in [extra] to replace it? Also would be nice to have an official stance on whether full svn checkouts are okay, since https://www.archlinux.org/svn/ strongly warns people against doing so... and comparing all PKGBUILDs at once is somewhat awkward when using separate branches in git (though git-grep does take multiple trees at least). -- Eli Schwartz