[arch-dev-public] dbscripts pkg pools

[Aaron Griffin]

On Sun, May 2, 2010 at 9:53 AM, Pierre Schmitz <pierre at archlinux.de> wrote:
> On Thu, 29 Apr 2010 12:05:19 -0500, Aaron Griffin
> <aaronmgriffin at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> That is going to be a painful initial rsync...  Is it just the clean-up
>>> script that can not handle the change?
>>
>> I'm sure we could figure something out... the cleanup script does one
>> thing that is incompatible: it removes (rm) files from each repo if
>> not in the DB - this assumes it is a symlink. It should be fairly easy
>> to replace that with a "if symlink, rm, else mv to cleanup"
>>
>> Can anyone else see anything incompatible here?
>
> I think its really only the cleanup script that is directly affected.
> db-update doesn't need to know about old packages, db-move and db-remove
> only work on db files and use mv which should also work with symlinks.
>
> I think it's definetly worth to modify the cleanup script to handle both
> layouts...a complete resync will produce a lot of unnessecary traffic.

How's this?
http://code.phraktured.net/cgit.cgi/dbscripts/commit/?h=pkgpools&id=1e13a032ac0bef748150c60f3b670e57dad2aee5

> The issue left is the community repo.

Ideas?