[pacman-dev] [ABS PATCH] Allow syncing the ABS tree using tarballs

[Xavier]

On Sun, Oct 26, 2008 at 2:17 PM, Allan McRae <allan at archlinux.org> wrote:
> I figured I'd post this here for comments seem it is a fairly decent sized
> patch.
> Thanks,
> Allan
>
>
> Some people are stuck behind restrictive firewalls and can not sync
> the ABS tree using rsync.  This patch adds support for downloading
> ABS snapshot tarballs from pacman mirrors.
>

I didn't read the patch, but +1 for the idea since it could have
helped me several times :)