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

[Allan McRae]

Dan McGee wrote:
> 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.
>   

I suppose we can just not distribute that in the package for the time 
being.  

Anyway, I will be taking the git versions of the building scripts for a 
spin later today so I can give them a good testing before you make a 
release.

Allan