[arch-general] An evil idea --- use Git to manage the repositories

[goodmenzy at gmail.com]

Hi, 
     It is just an idea, nothing more than it.
These days, I had think more than had done anything( a bad hehaver....)

     As an clumzy idea, git will help to manage the config/build script files.
And binary pkgs and source pkgs should be maintained by something else.

    As an embeded engineer, my insteresting is to maintain a repository which
contains a software of several version(Stupid idea? but my customer liks old versions).
It may support many versions of kernels( maybe include BSD kernel? )

   And I need some tools to help to install a new OS from scretch VERY quickly.
Build from souce code should be as easy as ABS. Maybe Gentoo is a good reference.....
 
   Now, I do not had any clear thought, needless to say coding. It will takes some time
to develop a prototype system.

   So many linux distros exists, maybe this will be another one(if Arch community refuse it to be called Arch )?





On 2009-09-17 23:10:10, nekomancer davion wrote:
> Date: Thu, 17 Sep 2009 23:10:10 -0400
> From: nekomancer davion <ladislaio at gmail.com>
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> Forsight linux does something like this, but their server side was
> closed source the last time I took a look(back in February).
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conary_(package_manager)
> 
> It is a very interesting idea, and could speed things up a lot.  It
> would make downloading packages to install elsewhere a pain in some
> cases though.  Using GIT as-is would be a bad idea(perhaps hack
> mercurial to do the work instead?).
> 
> It would be rather non-KISS, but it does not sound too hard so long as
> you do not allow for rollbacks(Just store a list of what files are
> different and thus would need to be updated).
> 
> goodmenz if you want to try to hack something together, I should have
> time to assist, although not much(still in school, busy semester).
> Anyone else interested?
> 
> Forking mercurial and pacman into MerMan would be the new Linux
> package management system which finally bring about the year of the
> Linux desktop!
> 
> ~Nekody
> 林克迪
> 
> On 9/9/09, Caleb Cushing <xenoterracide at gmail.com> wrote:
> > you are forgetting how quickly and ginormassly huge the git repo's would
> > get.
> >
> > --
> > Caleb Cushing
> >
> > http://xenoterracide.blogspot.com
> >