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

[Eric Bélanger]

On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 2:51 PM, Eric Bélanger <snowmaniscool at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 10:23 AM, Allan McRae <allan at archlinux.org> wrote:
>> Allan McRae wrote:
>>>
>>> Allan McRae wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Allan McRae wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> 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:
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> 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.
>>>>
>>>> Issues I have with makechrootpkg (git master with Aaron's master merged):
>>>>
>>>> 1) there is a whole heap of issues with using ""'s around variables that
>>>> have *'s in them.  So the * is not getting expanded and there are issues
>>>> copying the completed packages and adding them to a db.  I will send a patch
>>>> soon.  However the fix stops people using base chroot directories with
>>>> spaces in them.  I personally don't care about that possibility and prefer
>>>> things to work in some form...
>>>>
>>>> 2) I get output like:
>>>> which: no namcap in
>>>> (/home/allan/bin:/home/allan/bin:/bin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin/perlbin/site:/usr/bin/perlbin/vendor:/usr/bin/perlbin/core)
>>>> because the redirection to /dev/null is not quite right.  Again, patch on
>>>> its way...
>>>>
>>>
>>> Patch attached.  Applies on top of devtools git master with Aaron's master
>>> merged on top.
>>
>> Ignore that patch.  Running with this fix exposed an error in the test of
>> whether to add a package to a repo.  That is included in the patch on my git
>> web (http://dev.archlinux.org/~allan/gitweb/gitweb.cgi).
>>
>> Allan
>>
>>
>>
>
> Maybe it would be simpler to just push a new devtools package with
> only the fix to use aufs2 instead of unionfs to get this out of the
> way. After that, we could look into releasing a new tarball from git.
>
> Eric
>

On a related note: What are we going to do with the unionfs-utils
package? Remove it? It's out-of-date and on the licence rebuild list.