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

[Allan McRae]

Eric Bélanger wrote:
> 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.
>>     

I have built quite a few packages with the build tools (including my 
patch) now and they seem to be working fine.  Have not tested the upload 
scripts at all, but I think they are less changed.  I think a new 
release should not be too risky.

>
> 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.
>   

I'd guess remove it.  Is it of any use at all now?

Allan