Re: [pacman-dev] [ABS PATCH] Allow syncing the ABS tree using tarballs

On Sun, Oct 26, 2008 at 2:17 PM, Allan McRae wrote:

I figured I'd post this here for comments seem it is a fairly decent sized patch. Thanks, Allan

Some people are stuck behind restrictive firewalls and can not sync the ABS tree using rsync. This patch adds support for downloading ABS snapshot tarballs from pacman mirrors.

I didn't read the patch, but +1 for the idea since it could have helped me several times :)