[arch-dev-public] Divide and Konquer - Splitting KDE packages

[Aaron Griffin]

On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 7:35 PM, Aaron Griffin <aaronmgriffin at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 7:00 PM, Aaron Griffin <aaronmgriffin at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 6:21 PM, Pierre Schmitz <pierre at archlinux.de> wrote:
>>> In addition to this we'll need to update our devtools and db-scripts to handle
>>> those packages right. extrapkg should be quite simple; archrelease and repo-
>>> add should work just fine; only the db-scripts will really fail because they
>>> cannot guess the svn-dir just from the package name anymore.
>>
>> Hmmm, this one I will have to think about. The devtools changes should
>> be straightforward, but the db-scripts changes will not. Any ideas as
>> to how we can convert a packagename to an svn-dir name? I'd rather not
>> scan the whole repo...
>
> Best I can do after some initial hacking. Are there any assumptions we
> can make based on package name to trim the list so we don't have to
> check all PKGBUILDs?
>
> This is done without a checkout of the full repo, using svn list and svn cat...
>
> $ ./pkgfind 3ddesktop #first package in the repos
> Repo scan complete in 51ms
> Package -> 3ddesktop/
>
> $ ./pkgfind bash
> Repo scan complete in 3809ms
> Package -> bash/
>
> $ ./pkgfind libpano13 #median package in the repos
> Repo scan complete in 44170ms
> Package -> libpano13/
>
> $ ./pkgfind zsync #2nd to last package in the repos
> Repo scan complete in 90997ms
> Package -> zsync/
>
> These numbers are just going to grow...
>

Optimization: If we assume the first letters match...

$ ./pkgfind libpano13
Repo scan complete in 5555ms
Package -> libpano13/

$ ./pkgfind zvbi
Repo scan complete in 599ms
Package -> zvbi/

$ ./pkgfind zsync
Repo scan complete in 539ms
Package -> zsync/

$ ./pkgfind yasm
Repo scan complete in 235ms
Package -> yasm/

$ ./pkgfind perlxml
Repo scan complete in 3473ms
Package -> perlxml/