I am pulling new dbscripts on sigurd now. Am 16.08.2010 19:49, schrieb Pierre Schmitz:

Hi all,

as the new dbscripts are quite done I'll send you a list with the most important changes. (If you are in a hurry read at least the next paragraph)

Incompatible changes: * db-update will now update all packages found in your staging dir from all repositories * db-move has now a different syntax: "<repo-from> <repo-to> <pkgname|pkgbase> ..." You can move as many packages as you like at once. There is no need to specify an architecture here. * The wrapper scripts like testing2core have been removed as they are no longer needed; use db-move instead * testing2x now moves both arches at the same time (testing2x64 has been removed) * I have also started a user documentation at http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/DeveloperWiki:dbscripts

Important changes: * implementation of a package pool: all packages are now stored in pool/packages or pool/community directories on the ftp server. The current repository directories like extra/os/i686 only contain symlinks. As a results moving pacakges between repositories is now a matter of altering symlinks and as such very cheap. This should solve the problems with not fully synced mirrors we had in the past when a lot of packages were moved from e.g. testing to extra. * Packages are only switched to this new layout if they are updated or moved. This way the migration should be slow but smooth. * db-move can now handle multiple packages within one "transaction".

General improvements: * unit tests based on shunit2 * heavy refactoring to share common functions * Added more integrity checks which are run before the repositories are touched. * rewritten functions for easier and smaller code * the scripts can handle other db compressions than gz (but there is no migration path yet)

Note: even though the result is more or less a rewrite there are still things that can be improved or new useful features that can be added. The tests only cover some basic use cases so we should still have a look at it once the new version is deployed.

I think we should deploy these soon (before Allan's big python rebuild party) with CLEANUP_DRYRUN enabled during the first days.

Greetings,

Pierre