2007/9/7, Xavier <shiningxc@gmail.com>:
On Fri, Sep 07, 2007 at 10:56:44PM +0300, Roman Kyrylych wrote:
I don't see any difference between fetching new pacman-mirrors package version and updating pacman package. This essentially just moves package update procedure from one package name to another.
I think eliott clearly stated it, having mirrors in another package makes the mirror list independent of pacman. This would allow to update the mirror list more frequently, without having to wait for a new pacman version each time. A new pacman version is generally only made after a certain number of changes is made. And it also needs to be stable enough.
We don't have to wait for a stable pacman release. Just do not include mirrorlist in pacman tarball, but instead put it in CVS and add it to sources=() in PKGBUILD. Then when mirrorlist is updated - just bump pkgrel. That was what I meant. But now I find this solution worse than separate pacman-mirrors packageco due to this simple reason: it would be annoying to see "Install pacman first [Y/n]?" on every update of mirror list. :-P So yes, I started to like Eliott's idea. :-) -- Roman Kyrylych (Роман Кирилич)