On Sun, Oct 28, 2012 at 2:22 AM, Thomas Bächler <[email protected]> wrote: > Am 28.10.2012 02:10, schrieb Sébastien Luttringer: >> On Sun, Oct 28, 2012 at 2:02 AM, Thomas Bächler <[email protected]> wrote: >>> Am 28.10.2012 01:42, schrieb Ionut Biru: >>>>> We should finally have proper aliases for these. Like >>>>> packages-submit.archlinux.org and community-submit.archlinux.org. >>>>> >>>>> >>>> what is the purpose of those? >>> >>> Hostnames for subversion and package upload that devtools can use. This >>> is the umpteenth time that the host name changes - these aliases would >>> solve this problem transparently. >>> >> We can also use a config file for devtools programs instead of have >> config vars harcoded in scripts. >> > > The hostnames are "hardcoded" in your subversion checkout - and > migrating the checkout is annoying, because subversion sucks. So true.
> > Why are you guys arguing against having two extra DNS CNAMEs to make > everyone's lives easier? I'm not arguing against! This DNS trick is a good idea (so please do it), but I _also_ suggest to have config files in devtools. Cheers, -- Sébastien "Seblu" Luttringer https://www.seblu.net GPG: 0x2072D77A
