[pacman-dev] RFC: 'repo-add' command for repository discovery

[Phillip Smith]

On 21 July 2015 at 14:58, Tim Groeneveld <tim at timg.ws> wrote:
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> That .conf file would be downloaded, and then placed into /etc/pacman.d
>

Why not point to a package similar to 'pacman-mirrorlist' for that
mirror, this way the file in /etc/pacman.d/ can be managed in the
future by updates to that package in the repo it's adding?

eg,
# repo-add repo.example.com

1. Search for TXT record of repo.example.com ==
http://repo.example.com/any/example-mirrorlist.pkg.tar.gz
2. pacman -U the TXT RR
3. The mirrorlist file is now manage in an ongoing basis (assuming the
package actually exists in the 3rd party repo)

This is of course a roundabout way of just running `pacman -U
http://repo.example.com/any/example-mirrorlist.pkg.tar.gz` which is
the more KISS way IMHO, although I see how having the 'repo-add'
command would look/feel more polished.