[arch-dev-public] dbscripts pkg pools

Allan McRae allan at archlinux.org
Sun May 2 16:52:00 CEST 2010


On 03/05/10 00:46, Ionut Biru wrote:
> On 04/29/2010 02:39 AM, Allan McRae wrote:
>> On 29/04/10 03:42, Aaron Griffin wrote:
>>> On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 12:21 PM, Pierre Schmitz<pierre at archlinux.de>
>>> wrote:
>> <snip>
>>
>>>> * Does this also work with the old layout/packages? (especially the
>>>> cleanup and move scripts)
>>>
>>> No. What will have to happen is that all packages will need to be
>>> moved to /srv/ftp/packages/os/*/ and symlinked to where they actually
>>> end up (with relative symlinks, for the purposes of rsync). This can
>>> be scripted away fairly quickly.
>>
>> That is going to be a painful initial rsync... Is it just the clean-up
>> script that can not handle the change?
>>
>>
>>>> * Do all packages have the $arch within their filename? (community
>>>> might
>>>> be a problem here as they are not using db-scripts for that long)
>>
>> All package in [core] and [extra] have $arch in their filename as of a
>> month or two ago. There is no way community is even close.
>>
>> Allan
>
> that is not a problem. we can always rebuild all of them. the one that
> can't be rebuilt we move it into aur.

You are a bit keen....   it is over half the community repo (957/1874) 
that would need rebuilt.

If you really want to do some mindless rebuilding, see 
http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/DeveloperWiki:Unimportant_Rebuild_List .

Allan


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