[arch-projects] [devtools] [PATCH 1/2] arch-nspawn, mkarchroot: Allow not sharing the cache directories.

[Eli Schwartz]

On 1/17/19 6:27 AM, Maarten de Vries wrote:
> The commit you linked earlier[1], is that something that will find
> it's way into mainline devtools?
> 
> [1] https://github.com/eli-schwartz/devtools/commit/c0681c0ec0a93a4a4eaf9b2fd85ce48a30702a03
Unlikely. Not that I'm opposed to it happening, it's just totally not
worth my time to even try.

The last time I tried to submit a patch for devtools was here:
https://git.archlinux.org/devtools.git/commit/?id=5b3c14454a9c1ec00a3ef11f3f599281127b383d

This is when it was finally merged:
https://lists.archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-projects/2018-May/004897.html

It was only merged at that time, because despite my having contributed a
patch months before which make makechrootpkg work *at all* with pacman
5.1 on the host system, no one was actually reading this mailing list
who had commit rights for devtools.

Eventually, when pacman 5.1 was released, people started complaining in
the private staff channel that they could no longer build packages,
which is sort of awkward for the maintenance of the distribution, right?
Anyway, I said "I have pending patches from months ago that were
supposed to make this a non-issue", and I appealed directly to Allan in
order to merge it, and he asked me for a commit id that I thought should
be merged.

And this is the story of how I actually managed to get some changes into
devtools. By hunting down someone on IRC *after* the emergency has
already happened.

(Observant witnesses will note that there is another patch after that,
also written by me. That doesn't count, as one of the devtools
maintainers had something which bothered them enough to work on
devtools, and asked about it in IRC, and I wrote the patch basically on
request.)

...

I have lots of changes I want to actually make practical use of on a
personal level, and I *also* want to use modifications in order to build
packages for an archlinux32 chroot. I'm well on the way to totally
forking everything, and my changes are just going to get more
significant. Attempting to upstream a collection of controversial as
well as non-controversial changes, when my chances of even being heard
in the first place are... dim... is not worth the time when I can simply
sudo make install something that makes me happy and gets things done.

-- 
Eli Schwartz
Bug Wrangler and Trusted User

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