[arch-dev-public] devtools, archiso, et al

[Dan McGee]

On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 2:59 PM, Aaron Griffin <aaronmgriffin at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 2:29 PM, Aaron Griffin <aaronmgriffin at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 2:10 PM, Eric Bélanger <snowmaniscool at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 12:01 PM, Aaron Griffin <aaronmgriffin at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 6:39 AM, Allan McRae <allan at archlinux.org> wrote:
>>>>> Aaron Griffin wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 8:23 AM, Allan McRae <allan at archlinux.org> wrote:
>>>>>>> How hard would it be to convert from using unionfs to aufs2 in devtools?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Very easy. Minor changes to the mount syntax.
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Great.  Any chance of a patch now the kernel without unionfs is in [core]?
>>>>>  I don't have time to look into this at the moment but would like to
>>>>> continue using the build tools...
>>>>
>>>> Yeah, I will get to this tonight. I have been slacking way too much
>>>> with Arch stuff (been hella busy at work) - it irritates me, so I'm
>>>> going to power through a few things I've been putting off tonight.
>>>>
>>>> Both devtools AND archiso need changes, but I also want to get some of
>>>> my packages out of the way and finish up the bash rebuilds (mkinitcpio
>>>> issue is fixed in one of the official patches, so I'll be pushing out
>>>> 4.0.17 as soon as I can)
>>>>
>>>
>>> Any update for devtools? I'm still using 2.6.29.1-2 as I want to keep
>>> using my chroots.
>>
>> If you want to jump ahead:
>> http://code.phraktured.net/cgit.cgi/devtools/commit/?id=ca87391f99760dc6677df419031108e65b588ecd
>>
>> The patch is simple, as aufs supports unionfs syntax too. Actually a
>> sed "s/unionfs/aufs/" should actually work too.
>>
>> Make sure to install aufs2-util though
>
> Any qualms with me releasing devtools as it is from git?

Yes- it installs a communitypkg script that will no longer work with
the tupkg uploader, as it has been switched to use the devtools and
upload to our other server.

-Dan