[aur-general] CVS freeze and move to SVN/official tools

[Allan McRae]

Allan McRae wrote:
> Aaron Griffin wrote:
>> On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 9:27 PM, Daniel J
>> Griffiths<ghost1227 at archlinux.us> wrote:
>>  
>>> Aaron Griffin wrote:
>>>    
>>>> On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 12:20 PM, Biru Ionut<biru.ionut at gmail.com> 
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>      
>>>>> Aaron Griffin wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>        
>>>>>> The problem with that is my time. I have time tonight, so I 
>>>>>> wanted to
>>>>>> get it out of the way. If I wait, it might end up being weeks 
>>>>>> before I
>>>>>> can get a block of time to do this again.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Does anyone have an idea of the rebuilds that are left for 
>>>>>> community?
>>>>>> How many and how long it will take? If I could get an estimate, 
>>>>>> maybe
>>>>>> I could plan accordingly
>>>>>>
>>>>>>           
>>>>> i'm working on it now with ghost and i hope in maxim 2 hours all are
>>>>> done.
>>>>>
>>>>>         
>>>> Just a status check. If no one says "stop" in the next 45 minutes or
>>>> so, I'm going to do the transition
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>       
>>> Alright, we're down to 2 packages that need a rebuild and I don't 
>>> see us
>>> patching them quickly. Go ahead and run the transition.
>>>     
>>
>> OK, as far as I know, everything is complete. CVS is still there, but
>> is useless.
>>
>> Please read this:
>> http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/DeveloperWiki:HOWTO_Be_A_Packager
>>
>> I tested with some random package and am able to commit. I did not
>> test the dbscripts, but those should be working...
>>
>> You will all need to "mkdir -p ~/staging/community/" on sigurd.
>>
>> A devtools release is needed, so communitypkg works the same as the
>> rest. If someone would like to submit a patch to remove all the
>> community specific stuff, and vary the hostname based on repo
>> (archlinux.org / aur.archlinux.org), that'd be awesome. Or maybe Dan
>> did this already....?
>>
>> For now you can just scp the package to
>> aur.archlinux.org:staging/community and manually commit the files to
>> svn. You will also need to run "archrelease community-i686" or
>> "archrelease community-x86_64" before the dbscripts will allow you to
>> add a new package.
>>
>> Tomorrow I will update devtools, and setup cleanup cron jobs to be run
>> on that machine. I'll also sync svn to gerolde for the repo browser,
>> if you guys want.
>>
>> Loui, do you need to do anything with the AUR now?
>>
>>
>>
>> Again: Please do not use CVS anymore. It will do nothing. I have
>> killed the tupkg daemons so using CVS won't work anymore.
>>   
>
> I have permission issues:
> error: failure while copying files to /srv/ftp/community/os/x86_64/
>
> I guess we need to be added to the right group.

Also, I'm not sure the current group for that folder is the group you 
want us all added to.