[arch-dev-public] [signoff] abs 2.0-2

[Dan McGee]

On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 11:16 AM, eliott <eliott at cactuswax.net> wrote:
>
> On 4/15/08, Travis Willard <travis at archlinux.org> wrote:
>  > On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 5:15 AM, Pierre Schmitz <pierre at archlinux.de> wrote:
>  >  > Am Montag, 14. April 2008 08:47:52 schrieb eliott:
>  >  >
>  >  > > > it does not work for me on x86_64:
>  >  >  > >
>  >  >  > >  ==> Starting ABS sync...
>  >  >  > >  rsync: getaddrinfo:  873: Name or service not known
>  >  >  > >  rsync error: error in socket IO (code 10) at clientserver.c(122)
>  >  >  > >  [receiver=3.0.2]
>  >  >  >
>  >  >  > looks like you are having dns issues on that box.
>  >  >
>  >  >  No, I did not replace abs.conf by abs.conf.pacnew; so there was no
>  >  >  rsync-server set. Sorry, my fault. Works now on i686 and x86_64.
>  >
>  >
>  > Hm - I think I'll push this to core tonight, with a nice brief, but
>  >  descriptive install message explaining the change and urging people to
>  >  mv abs.conf.pacnew to abs.conf
>  >
>  >  Actually... since abs.conf is the only config file, can I move it
>  >  straight into /etc, and avoid the issue altogether?
>
>  probably just emit a message. People may want to clean up the supfiles too.

Killing a subdir in /etc sounds good to me (seems dumb if we only have
one file in it). Of course, don't do this if there is any chance of
needing that subdir again.

-Dan