On 04/04/2013 05:15 AM, Alucryd wrote:
AFAIK PKGBUILDs can still implement their own VCS downloads in build(), so, why not have it only pull the relevant paths? A quick google gave me [1], you get the idea...
cheers! mar77i
[1] http://stackoverflow.com/questions/50945/can-you-do-a-partial-checkout-with-... Execpt, google-webfonts uses Mercurial which afaict does not allow that [1]. Even doing a partial clone with a specified depth would be
On Thu, 2013-04-04 at 08:42 +0200, Martti Kühne wrote: pointless as TTF files are together with a bunch of other files in their directories. The hg package is relevant for those who want to clone the whole repo, not just the TTF files, and the git package is best for those who only want the fonts. It seems there is a tool named ConvertExtension which is mentioned in [1], this could be used to only pull the TTF from the hg repo, but this process wouldn't allow for incremental updates like git.
[1] http://mercurial.selenic.com/wiki/PartialClone
-- Maxime
Yeah; not only does mercurial not allow it now, the associated bug report is marked WONTFIX [2]. Still, those other packages (besides -git, -hg) are redundant. [2] http://bz.selenic.com/show_bug.cgi?id=105