[aur-general] CVS freeze and move to SVN/official tools

[Allan McRae]

Aaron Griffin wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 1:01 AM, Allan McRae<allan at archlinux.org> wrote:
>   
>> Aaron Griffin wrote:
>>     
>>> On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 12:37 AM, Aaron Griffin<aaronmgriffin at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>       
>>>> On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 9:27 PM, Daniel J
>>>> Griffiths<ghost1227 at archlinux.us> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>         
>>>>> Aaron Griffin wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>           
>>>>>> On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 12:20 PM, Biru Ionut<biru.ionut at gmail.com>
>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>             
>>>>>>> Aaron Griffin wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>               
>>>>>>>> The problem with that is my time. I have time tonight, so I wanted to
>>>>>>>> get it out of the way. If I wait, it might end up being weeks before
>>>>>>>> I
>>>>>>>> can get a block of time to do this again.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Does anyone have an idea of the rebuilds that are left for community?
>>>>>>>> How many and how long it will take? If I could get an estimate, maybe
>>>>>>>> I could plan accordingly
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>                 
>>>>>>> i'm working on it now with ghost and i hope in maxim 2 hours all are
>>>>>>> done.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>               
>>>>>> Just a status check. If no one says "stop" in the next 45 minutes or
>>>>>> so, I'm going to do the transition
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>             
>>>>> Alright, we're down to 2 packages that need a rebuild and I don't see us
>>>>> patching them quickly. Go ahead and run the transition.
>>>>>
>>>>>           
>>>> OK, as far as I know, everything is complete. CVS is still there, but
>>>> is useless.
>>>>
>>>> Please read this:
>>>> http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/DeveloperWiki:HOWTO_Be_A_Packager
>>>>
>>>> I tested with some random package and am able to commit. I did not
>>>> test the dbscripts, but those should be working...
>>>>
>>>> You will all need to "mkdir -p ~/staging/community/" on sigurd.
>>>>
>>>> A devtools release is needed, so communitypkg works the same as the
>>>> rest. If someone would like to submit a patch to remove all the
>>>> community specific stuff, and vary the hostname based on repo
>>>> (archlinux.org / aur.archlinux.org), that'd be awesome. Or maybe Dan
>>>> did this already....?
>>>>
>>>> For now you can just scp the package to
>>>> aur.archlinux.org:staging/community and manually commit the files to
>>>> svn. You will also need to run "archrelease community-i686" or
>>>> "archrelease community-x86_64" before the dbscripts will allow you to
>>>> add a new package.
>>>>
>>>> Tomorrow I will update devtools, and setup cleanup cron jobs to be run
>>>> on that machine. I'll also sync svn to gerolde for the repo browser,
>>>> if you guys want.
>>>>
>>>> Loui, do you need to do anything with the AUR now?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Again: Please do not use CVS anymore. It will do nothing. I have
>>>> killed the tupkg daemons so using CVS won't work anymore.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>         
>>> Tested dbscripts (you'll see a 'foobar' package in community x86_64 -
>>> I added then removed it from the DB)
>>>
>>> When running the dbscripts, you'll need to use /arch/db-community{,64}
>>> - or manually /arch/db-update community {i686,x86_64} - ignore the
>>> scripts for extra/core/etc
>>>
>>> Additionally, I created a skeleton repo called "community-testing" to
>>> be used as a testing repo. It's not linked up to gerolde, so it does
>>> nothing for the time being, but you should be able to use it if you
>>> want (archrelease community-testing-$ARCH; /arch/db-update
>>> community-testing $ARCH)
>>>
>>>       
>> Great.  Now we just need to get ABS working again.  This should just be a
>> matter of altering the update-abs.sh script to use svn2abs for community and
>> pointing it at the right place...
>>
>> @Aaron: can you handle that given you know where these things are located?
>>     
>
> Yeah. Do we want it running on sigurd or gerolde? I'm not sure where
> abs gets the files from these days - is it the .abs.tar.gz tarballs?
>   

abs gets the files from the /srv/abs/rsync directory by default.  The 
tarballs are just a backup method to retrieve the ABS files from the 
mirrors when rsync is blocked. 

So the question is, do we run svn2abs on gerolde which requires a 
complete checkout of the SVN directory, or do we run it on sigurd and 
rsync the changes to gerolde to then be rsynced to the masses.  The 
first option is easiest to implement, but will have more overhead by not 
doing the required SVN checkout locally.  I'm not sure how large that 
overhead is.

Allan