On Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 9:35 PM, Eric Bélanger <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 12:26 PM, Eric Bélanger <[email protected]> > wrote: >> On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 7:23 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) >> >> There are already testing2community* scripts in git as well as a >> db-community-testing. They just need to be released on sigurd. >> >>> - delta support... >> >>> >>> Any others? >> >> Couple of bugs that could be fixed. >> >> FS#17058 - {dbscripts} ftpdir-cleanup marked new packages as out of date >> >> FS#17098 - sourceballs: Removal of old sourceball not efficient >> >> Probably sourceballs and sourceballs-cleanup should be merged. > > I made a patch for that. It's untested yet. As I can't test it on my > system, I'll need to test it on gerolde. I could make my copy of the > sourceballs directory in my home directory. It'll be the most > convenient for me if fixes needs to be done but it'll use up > (temporarily) 9.5-10 GB of the avaliable 11GB of disk space. > Alternatively, an admin could start the new scripts while I'm able to > keep an eye on it and stay available in case the script needs to be > stopped. I could also just send a git patch of the untested script. > Any idea on the best way to proceed?
Don't copy, use hardlinks or symlinks please. -Dan
