On Fri, 06 May 2011 15:28:29 +0200 Pierre Schmitz <pierre@archlinux.de> wrote:
On Fri, 06 May 2011 17:45:13 +1000, Allan McRae wrote:
On 06/05/11 17:31, Dieter Plaetinck wrote:
On Thu, 05 May 2011 21:38:14 -0300 adding exceptions in download-repo.sh to work around limitations in our repo scripts is not the way to go imho. let's get those packages out of core the proper way, and let's see if/how we can cut another 10MB.
That limitation in the devtools/db-scripts has been around ever since split packages became available in pacman/makepkg. I would not bank on it getting fixed in the short term (or even in the long term...)
I wont got into details here but putting split packages into different repos is a "wont implement". It's more a limitation of how we use svn and the repos. There was a thread about the details on the mailing list.
I can't find that thread. Where exactly was this discussed? I understand this is probably hard to fix, on the other hand: 1) this is a violation of what the core repository is for (and we had a very extensive discussion on that recently). see https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Official_repositories#.5Bcore.5D 2) it makes the core repo bigger than it should be, which makes my job harder. Dieter