[arch-dev-public] [Draft] ABS announcement

[Travis Willard]

On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 10:34 PM, Dan McGee <dpmcgee at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 9:32 PM, Travis Willard <travis at archlinux.org> wrote:
>  > On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 10:30 PM, Travis Willard <travis at archlinux.org> wrote:
>  >  > So... are we going to announce the SVN move, or should I just go on
>  >  >  ahead and announce the ABS stuff?
>  >  >
>  >
>  >  Oh, and revised draft:
>  >
>  >
>  >  -----------8<-----------------8<--------
>  >  ABS 2.0 In Testing
>  >
>  >  With version 2, ABS has moved to an rsync method for pulling the ABS
>  >  tree, as part of the changes that needed to be made for our internal
>  >  move from CVS to SVN as our source control mechanism.  This means a
>  >  few things:
>  >
>  >
>  > 1) cvsup/csup are no longer required, rsync is used instead
>  >  2) Configuration moved from /etc/abs/abs.conf to /etc/abs.conf -
>  >  /etc/abs/* are no longer required
>  >
>  >
>  >  Also, since category information (ie. base, devel, editors) is no
>  >  longer stored in the repo, makeworld has been updated - check
>  >  makeworld -h for more info.
>  >  -----------8<-----------------8<--------
>
>  Looks great. Get it out there.

Done