Re: [arch-general] [DRAFT] Deprecation of the ABS tool and rsync server

2017-05-24 Thread Bartłomiej Piotrowski
> abs certainly was a bit part of the Arch KISS philosophy, with a single > command mirroring the build system to /var. Was darn convenient to... Hard to > see how the 84M (uncompressed) it requires was that big of a cost issue, but I > guess it adds up. You can simply clone svn2git mirrors, as me

Re: [arch-general] [DRAFT] Deprecation of the ABS tool and rsync server

2017-05-24 Thread Eli Schwartz via arch-general
On 05/24/2017 01:08 PM, David C. Rankin wrote: > So from now on, we use 'asp export pkgname'. Is it recommended that we `sudo > rm -rf /var/abs` at the end of the month? It doesn't look like it will have > any use under the new way of doing things. You could also checkout the svn tree, or use: asp

Re: [arch-general] [DRAFT] Deprecation of the ABS tool and rsync server

2017-05-24 Thread David C. Rankin
On 05/10/2017 02:14 AM, Bartłomiej Piotrowski wrote: > For some reason I sent this to arch-dev-public instead, sending again here… > > On 2017-05-10 04:27, Pablo Roberto Lezaeta Reyes via arch-general > wrote: >> You should clarify if this affect user cloning the servers repos by >> rsync to set

Re: [arch-general] [DRAFT] Deprecation of the ABS tool and rsync server

2017-05-10 Thread Bartłomiej Piotrowski
For some reason I sent this to arch-dev-public instead, sending again here… On 2017-05-10 04:27, Pablo Roberto Lezaeta Reyes via arch-general wrote: > You should clarify if this affect user cloning the servers repos by > rsync to set they non-tiered local repos (*.pkg.tag.xzs) or just the > pkgb

Re: [arch-general] [DRAFT] Deprecation of the ABS tool and rsync server

2017-05-09 Thread Pablo Roberto Lezaeta Reyes via arch-general
> > There we go. Far from perfect, happy to hear suggestions from spirits of > poetry. > > --- > > Due to high maintenance costs of rsync server and scripts related to > Arch Build System, we have decided to deprecate the `abs` tool and rsync > as endorsed way of obtaining PKGBUILDs tree. > > The