[pacman-dev] [PATCH] etc: remove Arch-specific mirrorlist from repo

Aaron Griffin aaronmgriffin at gmail.com
Fri Jan 11 15:37:46 EST 2008


On Jan 11, 2008 11:30 AM, Dan McGee <dpmcgee at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Jan 11, 2008 11:27 AM, Aaron Griffin <aaronmgriffin at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Jan 11, 2008 10:48 AM, eliott <eliott at cactuswax.net> wrote:
> > > I agree. The pacman project is an arch 'sponsored' project, but it
> > > isn't designed soley for arch. These types of changes should make it
> > > easier for other distributions,  like frugalware for example, to
> > > package it up and use it -- I would think.
> >
> > That's correct. A large chunk of recent changes have been made with
> > this in mind.
> >
> > Dan, I agree here, as long as the default pacman.conf has SOMETHING by
> > way of example, we can just replace it in the package like everything
> > else.
>
> So in reference to the original patch, what should I do? Add an
> example sync repository section, all commented out?

I'd add a few examples. servers listed, some using $repo, some not and
add an Include directive... not a real section but some comments
describing them (see /etc/mkinitcpio.conf for how I like to do this
stuff)




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