[arch-dev-public] [devtools] was: Status Report 2007-10-08

[Aaron Griffin]

On 10/15/07, Jason Chu <jason at archlinux.org> wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 13, 2007 at 03:03:32PM +0200, Andreas Radke wrote:
> > Am Mon, 8 Oct 2007 18:11:52 -0500
> > schrieb "Aaron Griffin" <aaronmgriffin at gmail.com>:
> >
> > > * Devtools updates
> > >
> > > This was an item from last time that Dan and I completed. We have not
> > > yet released a new devtools tarball, as I'd like to wait for the
> > > chroot build tools to be complete.
> > >
> > > Ref:
> > > http://archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-dev-public/2007-September/001883.html
> >
> >
> > Please don't wait anymore. new devtools help a lot and are ready to
> > use. Right now i have to fix the 32/64 suffix for all chroots by hand
> > and spread it over all chroots.
> >
> > Pending issues/tasks:
> > - checkpkg should also make use of PKGDEST and check if the old pkg
> > already extists there.
> > - integrate a switch to revert the upload/commit/tag/order
> > - force to use checkpkg and namcap in extrapkg - devs have to prompt to
> > go further
> > - later mkchroot scripts
>
> I think it's probably better to release without the chroot stuff than
> waiting for it.  I'll have to figure out which things we should include in
> the release (from the list of pending issues).  I suspect just the checkpkg
> PKGDEST check.

This is part of the reason why the chroot tools are all entirely on my own repo.

If we release everything on gerolde right now, all bases are covered.