[arch-dev-public] Getting a community testing repo going

Allan McRae allan at archlinux.org
Thu Sep 17 04:59:31 EDT 2009


Ronald van Haren wrote:
>
>
> On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 9:31 AM, Allan McRae <allan at archlinux.org 
> <mailto:allan at archlinux.org>> wrote:
>
>     Hi,
>
>     With the rebuilds currently going on in [testing], it would be a
>     good time to get the [communitesting] repo going (or pick a better
>     name...).  What do we need to do to achieve this?
>
>     Allan
>
>
> At least we should have a
> - new devtools release with a communitytestpkg script
> - pacman release with the community testing repo added to pacman.conf

Both are really non-issues as we can just use arch-release and tell 
[testing] users to put this in their pacman.conf for the time being.  
The main issues is getting it synced to gerolde and to our mirrors beyond.

Allan


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