[arch-dev-public] [Draft] ABS announcement

[Dan McGee]

On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 9:32 PM, Travis Willard <travis at archlinux.org> wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 10:30 PM, Travis Willard <travis at archlinux.org> wrote:
>  > So... are we going to announce the SVN move, or should I just go on
>  >  ahead and announce the ABS stuff?
>  >
>
>  Oh, and revised draft:
>
>
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>  ABS 2.0 In Testing
>
>  With version 2, ABS has moved to an rsync method for pulling the ABS
>  tree, as part of the changes that needed to be made for our internal
>  move from CVS to SVN as our source control mechanism.  This means a
>  few things:
>
>
> 1) cvsup/csup are no longer required, rsync is used instead
>  2) Configuration moved from /etc/abs/abs.conf to /etc/abs.conf -
>  /etc/abs/* are no longer required
>
>
>  Also, since category information (ie. base, devel, editors) is no
>  longer stored in the repo, makeworld has been updated - check
>  makeworld -h for more info.
>  -----------8<-----------------8<--------

Looks great. Get it out there.

-Dan