[arch-dev-public] Time to go forward with arch=any?

Firmicus Firmicus at gmx.net
Sat Jul 18 15:51:20 EDT 2009


Aaron Griffin a écrit :
> On Sat, Jul 18, 2009 at 1:08 AM, Firmicus<Firmicus at gmx.net> wrote:
>   
>> I've just prepared pre-release packages of TeXLive 2009. They should be
>> ready for release (upstream) within the next 4-8 weeks. Before that, I'd
>> *really* love to benefit from arch=any. That would save considerable
>> space on gerolde, as well as bandwidth, and would also speed up my task
>> with building/uploading.
>>
>> Any prospect of making the transition to the new dbscripts soon? We
>> could use the testing repo first to check that everything runs as expected.
>>     
>
> OK, for testing purposes I've checked out the dbscripts HEAD in
> /arch-new on gerolde. This has potential support for 'any' packages
> AND split packages
>
> Please test them and let me know if there are any errors (I can fix
> them, or you can send me a patch)
>
> I've created testing/os/any on gerolde (the others may error out
> because of the missing dir).
>
> This should use symlinks so no one needs to update pacman.conf, correct?
>
>   
Great, thanks for this Aaron. I'll upload a few "any" packages when I
have a chance later tonight.




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