[arch-dev-public] New DB scripts

[Aaron Griffin]

On Wed, May 7, 2008 at 11:26 AM, Eric Belanger
<belanger at astro.umontreal.ca> wrote:
> On Wed, 7 May 2008, Aaron Griffin wrote:
>
>
> > Hey all,
> > I'm comfortable enough with the new db scripts to throw them out in the
> wild.
> >
> > So, I've placed them at /arch-new for you to play with. Here are some
> > caveats, however:
> >
> > * This will not update the website DB. Use at your discresion. Once
> > these are "approved", then Eliott can move the new-model web changes
> > out and the front end WILL be updated on a cron job.
> >
> > * There will be a warning about ~/staging/${REPO}64/ existing. This is
> > expected. Because we have the arch in the filename, we don't need
> > extra dirs anymore. Don't worry, the scripts handle it gracefully and
> > a new devtools release will do away with pushing to the '64' dirs.
> > Then we can clean up our staging dirs a bit.
> >
> > * I didn't fully test removal, because I didn't have anything to
> > remove. If someone has a package to remove, let me know so I can test
> > it properly. If you try, let me know if it fails.
> >
>
>  There's 2 packages that you could remove to test the script.
>
>  There's my proftpd package that noone seems to be interested in picking up.
> A package in community depends on it, so it'll need to be moved there. I
> have an updated PKGBUILD and fixed daemon script that I could send you so
> you could put the fixed package in community.  Alternatively, I could build
> the packages but you'll need to test the x86_64 one because of reasons
> mentioned in the proftpd thread.
>
>  There's also acroread. The discussion about it seems to have settled down.

Thanks Eric, I'll kill off acroread. Do you think we should announce this?