On 28/09/10 01:24, Dan McGee wrote:

On Sat, Sep 25, 2010 at 3:33 PM, Christopher Rogers wrote:

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I have a very early patch for backup development sources with --allsource option. The idea is to be able to backup all source code even when its svn/git/bzr/hg etc to .src.tar.gz files. This way we can have backup source in case the something goes down or if we mail dvd to place with spotty internet there will get full source code of all of archlinux. No need to download stuff when building.

Like i said this is very early patch. I release it now cause i don't really do pacman coding. The source will be download to $startdir then tar.bz2 to $srcdir/$pkgname-$pkgver.tar.bz2. The source is still not added into the .src.tar.gz files yet. I think source array and md5sum array will have to be added for all of it to be all package up.

I hope this helps.

Sounds like something that should probably get tied into our mega-bug/feature request: https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/16872

I'd look for something there that is related on the "related tasks" page, and if there isn't one already doing stuff like this, open another feature request and attach the WIP patch.

ping... It looks like there is nothing related to this particular part of VCS packaging in the bug tracker so a new bug report would be good so that this does not get lost. Allan