On Sun, 2015-07-05 at 21:36 +1000, Allan McRae wrote:
Now we have .SRCINFO in source packages, it would be easy to add the source packages to a repository and have pacman be able to access them. This will kill ABS in Arch!
There are two ideas on how this should be handled:
1) Add source package information in the .db file if it is there when a package is added
or
2) Have a separate .source repository
I have listed the pros/cons of each approach here: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/User:Allan/Pacman_Source_Reposit ories
I personally like #2, because adding them to .db files is a major increase in size. Currently, signatures take up ~55% of the average sync database size. With the source package also having a signature, that increases the db by slightly more than that much again.
Any other comments to add to the debate before I make a final decision and implement this?
Why in option #1, you doesn't follow the logic of debug repository? I mean have a dedicated repository where we only push source packages? This make us progress on having debug repository up and running. Cheers, -- Sébastien "Seblu" Luttringer https://seblu.net | Twitter: @seblu42 GPG: 0x2072D77A