[arch-dev-public] The move to SVN

[Jason Chu]

On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 05:26:33PM -0500, Aaron Griffin wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 4:50 PM, Jason Chu <jason at archlinux.org> wrote:
> >
> > On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 04:39:18PM -0500, Aaron Griffin wrote:
> >  > Top posting, wheee 8)
> >  >
> >  > On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 4:29 PM, Travis Willard <travis at archlinux.org> wrote:
> >  > >  As I mentioned on Jabber, I've got an rsync-based ABS script totally
> >  > >  ready for a testrun or two.  In fact, I think I'll commit it to the
> >  > >  ABS repo tonight so's you can have a look-see if you want.
> >  > >
> >  > >  I'm still unsure how to generate the rsync repo to pull from.  Would a
> >  > >  db-scripts patch work best, do you think?  We can co-ordinate on this
> >  > >  if you want, I'm perfectly willing to do the work for that.
> >  >
> >  > I think you should assume, for the time being, that the rsync
> >  > directory is there. We should have a checkout that is synced on each
> >  > commit, I think. But it could even be a cron job - for right now,
> >  > assume it just exists, unless you want to figure out the best/simplest
> >  > way to do that. I'd probably start off with a cron job, just for the
> >  > "path of least resistance" part of it
> >
> >  Agreed a cron job would be the easiest.  It's a simple script that would
> >  have to find all the repos/<blah> directories and extract their contents.
> >
> >  I may write one and just test it with my old svnarch repo.
> 
> Yeah, it's easy, but also may be lost effort if done poorly, as it
> won't be able to do the "up to date" check, it will have to do a full
> CO each time... as long as we keep some sort of perma-checkout sitting
> somewhere... /me shrugs

Yeah, planned on keeping a perma-checkout sitting somewhere ;)

Jason
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