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

Bartłomiej Piotrowski bpiotrowski at archlinux.org
Wed May 10 07:14:53 UTC 2017


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 
> pkgbuilds repo clones (PKGBUILDs).

That's better phrased in Florian's revision, but both mention PKGBUILDs,
so I'm not sure if there is anything more to explain.

> Also mention devtools still depend on subversion despite you mention 
> that for cloning one should use git, that intentional or 
> inconsistenty?

devtools depending on svn has nothing to do with ABS; the paragraph you
refer to describes methods of obtaining full PKGBUILDs tree.

Bartłomiej


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