[arch-general] Why doesn't svntogit/{community, packages} describe cloning (or download) of individual packages?

[Thomas Bächler]

Am 05.08.2017 um 07:15 schrieb David C. Rankin:
> All,
> 
>   After abs demise, I ran into needed to rebuild gtk2 with --enable-debug=yes
> for a gtk.org bug report. Finding the packages from the normal package search
> is simple, but when you are on svntogit -- the only helpful discussions are to
> clone the entire repository, e.g.:
> 
> Clone
> https://git.archlinux.org/svntogit/community.git
> git://git.archlinux.org/svntogit/community.git
> ssh://git.archlinux.org/srv/git/svntogit/community.git
> 
>   Nowhere are there options to download or clone the current repository (like
> github) and nowhere is there a mention of 'asp export pkgname'. There is no
> wiki for asp and the only mention is in the ABS page -- and that information
> relates to the svn part of the tree.
> 
>   'asp export' works fine, but if there is nothing on the svntogit that
> directs folks to it, the only information given is to 'Clone' as shown above.
> (which will result in roughly 500M each for community and packages if the
> instructions on the page are followed (compared to what was 88M total for abs).
> 
>   Can individual clone or download urls be provided on each package page like
> with github? Can references to 'asp export' also be provided? Those seems like
> things that should be done to help with the transition away from abs and help
> preserve bandwidth.
> 

git clone --branch packages/gtk2 --single-branch
https://git.archlinux.org/svntogit/packages.git gtk2

Regards
Thomas

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