[arch-dev-public] Syncing single repo with abs

[Allan McRae]

Travis Willard wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 7, 2008 at 8:21 AM, Allan McRae <allan at archlinux.org> wrote:
>   
>> Travis Willard wrote:
>>     
>>> On Sun, Jul 6, 2008 at 9:01 PM, Allan McRae <allan at archlinux.org> wrote:
>>>
>>>       
>>>> I was talking about JUST the command-line functionality.  That is the bit
>>>> the is broken and apparently no-one uses.  Selection from abs.conf will
>>>> definitely stay.
>>>>
>>>>         
>>> OK, in that case I'm not so opposed. ;)  If it looks like an easy fix,
>>> go for it, otherwise I don't think it'd hurt to lose.
>>>
>>> In the future, I was thinking some kind of configuration or syntax to
>>> allow people to sync a predefined list of packages, instead of whole
>>> repos.  For example, if someone wanted to rebuild only wine, they
>>> should be able to say "abs extra/wine" or have PKGS=(extra/wine) in
>>> abs.conf and not be required to sync everything.
>>>
>>> Dunno if that sounds like a good idea to you or not, but people have
>>> requested on the forums some method to sync single packages (usually
>>> as an argument to allow anon svn access)
>>>
>>>
>>>       
>> Well, I had a quick attempt at fixing this.  I can get the command line
>> arguments working but at the price of a rsync transaction per arguement.  In
>> a coincidence "abs extra/wine" now works but syncs it into /var/abs/wine
>> instead of /var/abs/extra/wine.  I should be able to fix that though.
>>     
>
> Hm... dunno if that'd be an acceptable trade-off.  Might put too much
> load on gerolde that way - one rsync transaction per package in our
> repos? Yikes.
>   

Not one rsync per package, one rsyn per command line parameter.  So "abs 
core extra" would rsync the core dir followed by rsyncing the extra dir.