[arch-dev-public] Getting rid of the ABS <-> CVS link
Dale Blount
dale at archlinux.org
Fri Nov 16 16:38:07 EST 2007
On Fri, 2007-11-16 at 13:29 -0800, eliott wrote:
> On 11/16/07, Aaron Griffin <aaronmgriffin at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hey guys,
> > I wanted to bring this up here to see if anyone had any input.
> >
> > For the longest time I have hated that ABS is dependent on our version
> > control system. Not only that but we have this whole csup/cvsup thing
> > which is annoying, and _now_ we hit yet another snag: csup doesn't
> > have cvsupd, which means we can't get rid of the cvsup package on
> > gerolde.
> >
> > So yeah, CVS == headache.
> >
> > I wanted to try to get rid of this, and Dan had a brilliant idea:
> > * Some cron job (or even cvs hook) that does a simple export of the
> > repo when it needs to.
> > * rsyncd supplying that exports that dir
> > * Modify 'abs' to use rsync
> > * Boom, done
> >
> > Does anyone have any issues with something like that? Or any better ideas?
>
> Sounds full of win to me.
> 1. We already leverage rsync. It will just be some setup on our end.
>
We should set it up on a different hostname and port.
rsync://abs.archlinux.org:874 comes to mind. This will allow us to run
a separate rsync service where we can force compression,etc on or off as
we see fit.
> 2. rsync is scm agnostic. If we change scm in the future, we just
> change the export dir generation sequence. To the end user, it is
> seamless.
Agreed.
> 3. It should migrate well. End users will just get the new abs
> package, and sync. There should be no need to nuke and refetch
> abs..just update with rsync.
>
Right. But do we use --delete in the abs client?
> 4. One less service running on gerolde. Ever run top and watch cvsupd? lulz
>
rsync has spent its fair share of time at the top of top as well.
> 5. We can throttle the speed with rsyncd configuration options if we
> want. This might be a nice way to make sure people don't go crazy with
> it or something.
>
Yep. See my response to #1.
> 6. Standard from the end user perspective. Lots of similar things use
> rsync. I think bsd ports can be rsync fetched, for instance.
Good to know. Can you confirm this?
Dale
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