On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 6:23 AM, Allan McRae <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, > > There has been talk about what is needed/wanted for the future of devtools > and db-scripts but not much done lately. So I thought I would get together > a list of ideas so we could perhaps do a coding sprint to implement them. > Here is what I have got so far: > > devtools > - split-PKGBUILDs with (supported in future pacman): > -> both binary and arch=any packages > -> overridden pkgver > -> overridden pkgrel (and only selected sub-packages) > - support for xz compression (nothing needed?) > > db-scripts > - support for xz compression transition (e.g. in clean-up script) > - support for single "package" directory with symlinks to repos > - allow db-move to handle multiple packages > (or add a script to help moving from community-testing) > - delta support... > > Any others?
I am more than willing to work on the package pooling part of the db-scripts code, I just need to find the time. And I agree with Thomas that the compression stuff should be made more generic.
