[pacman-dev] [abs] Ideas about abs

[Dan McGee]

On Jan 3, 2008 4:17 PM, eliott <eliott at cactuswax.net> wrote:
> With a potential move of abs from cvsup to rsync, would it make sense
> to include a 'seeded' abs tree as part of the abs package (a point in
> time snapshot of the abs tree) so that people can get off to a bit of
> a start, as well as spread 'some' of the initial bandwidth to the
> mirrors?
>
> Something like the abs package including a snapshot in
> /usr/share/abs/base-tree.tar.gz or something equally brain dead.

I think this makes pretty good sense, thinking about it. Because abs
will be living in core/devel, not everyone will need it, so space
concerns are a bit more minimal. However, what repositories do you
include? I believe our initial prototype was still able to only sync
certain trees if one so desired. For instance, many people have no use
for the unstable and/or testing abs trees. I would say that core and
extra are pretty much standard fare and could be included.

/me rethinks...the disadvantage is that if we even bump the pkgrel of
abs, users would have to download this tar.gz of what might already be
an outdated abs tree. Hmm.

-Dan