[arch-dev-public] Tedious: Moving packages from testing to the real repo

[Travis Willard]

On Feb 1, 2008 7:21 PM, Jason Chu <jason at archlinux.org> wrote:
>
> On Fri, Feb 01, 2008 at 05:53:27PM -0600, Aaron Griffin wrote:
> > I've noticed this process is real tedious.
> >
> > cvs update
> > tag -d TESTING or TESTING-64
> > tag -F CURRENT or CURRENT-64
> > ssh archlinux.org
> > mv files from testing to staging/testing(64)/del
> > cp staging/testing(64)/del to staging/$REPO(64)/add
> > run /arch/db-testing(64)
> > run /arch/db-$REPO
> >
> > It gets even more tedious when you have to do it for both architectures.
> >
> > So, I want to improve this, but I want to know what _you_ all would
> > like as a usecase here? Should there be a script on gerolde to do it,
> > or should it be part of devtools with the db-scripts still run on
> > gerolde. Opinions?

I'd be fine with something akin to extrapkg, where it did all the
tagging, and put stuff in the right staging dirs, but left the
/arch/db-x calls to me.