[arch-dev-public] Moving the DB scripts

[Travis Willard]

On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 1:34 PM, Aaron Griffin <aaronmgriffin at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 11:56 AM, Aaron Griffin <aaronmgriffin at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 11:03 AM, Aaron Griffin <aaronmgriffin at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 10:30 AM, Eric Belanger
>>> <belanger at astro.umontreal.ca> wrote:
>>>> On Tue, 20 May 2008, Aaron Griffin wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 11:36 PM, Eric Belanger
>>>>> <belanger at astro.umontreal.ca> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Tue, 20 May 2008, Aaron Griffin wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Hey all,
>>>>>>> I'm going to move the new db scripts live. In an hour or so. I still
>>>>>>> need to generalize Pierre's testing2core script and commit it, then I
>>>>>>> will push them live.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Once I do that, it is going to break the website updates for a short
>>>>>>> period - until Eliott can get to the web changes (we haven't been able
>>>>>>> to coordinate properly, so rather than wasting time, I'm doing this
>>>>>>> move now).
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> So, if you guys could hold off doing repo related activities in about
>>>>>>> an hour or so, that'd be great.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> One fun addition: /arch/db-remove
>>>>>>> No more need for package files to remove a package. Syntax is:
>>>>>>> db-remove pkgname repo arch
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Cheers,
>>>>>>> Aaron
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Status update:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Aaron just contacted me via Jabber. Due to time constraint as it's
>>>>>> becoming
>>>>>> late, the move will happen tomorrow.
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks Eric. Additionally, I added 'db-move' which is a generalization
>>>>> of Pierre's testing2extra script. db-move, testing2extra, and
>>>>> testing2core are all in /arch-new if you want to test them.
>>>>
>>>> I tried to use testing2core but it didn't work. It's the first time I use a
>>>> script to do that so I might be doing it wrong. First, I did the usual
>>>> archrelease stuff locally. Then I logged on gerolde and:
>>>>
>>>> $ /arch/testing2core licenses bzip2
>>>> ==> Moving package 'licenses'
>>>> Checked out revision 1848.
>>>> Error: licenses is not in repo testing
>>>> ==> Moving package 'bzip2'
>>>> Checked out revision 1848.
>>>> Error: bzip2 is not in repo testing
>>>>
>>>> Did I had to copy the packages in the staging directories before? Or is it
>>>> something else? I eventually did it manually and that worked.
>>>
>>> Ah, yeah - those scripts mean you don't have to do anything locally.
>>> If it's in testing, just connect to gerolde and run "testing2core"
>>> It's only one step.
>>>
>>>> Also, I noticed that the new db script no longer removes the files in the
>>>> staging/${repo}64/* directories. I know it'll be a moot issues when the
>>>> devtools package will be updated but, instead of copying the packages to
>>>> staging/${repo}/*, can't it just move them there? Of course, if devtools is
>>>> planned to be updated soon then you can ignore this request.
>>>
>>> Ah yeah, I overlooked that. Right now I copy files from the *64 dirs
>>> to the non-suffixed ones. I guess I could 'mv' them to cover all the
>>> bases
>>>
>>
>> Updated the scripts:
>>   fixed db-remove usage output
>>   use 'mv' to transfer from staging64
>>
>
> Updated "removing" and "move to another repo" here:
> http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/DeveloperWiki:HOWTO_Be_A_Packager
>
> Please take a look when you get a chance

Looks reasonable to me