[arch-dev-public] Syncing single repo with abs

[Travis Willard]

On Mon, Jul 7, 2008 at 8:33 AM, Allan McRae <allan at archlinux.org> wrote:
> Travis Willard wrote:
>>
>> On Mon, Jul 7, 2008 at 8:21 AM, Allan McRae <allan at archlinux.org> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> Travis Willard wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Sun, Jul 6, 2008 at 9:01 PM, Allan McRae <allan at archlinux.org> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> I was talking about JUST the command-line functionality.  That is the
>>>>> bit
>>>>> the is broken and apparently no-one uses.  Selection from abs.conf will
>>>>> definitely stay.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> OK, in that case I'm not so opposed. ;)  If it looks like an easy fix,
>>>> go for it, otherwise I don't think it'd hurt to lose.
>>>>
>>>> In the future, I was thinking some kind of configuration or syntax to
>>>> allow people to sync a predefined list of packages, instead of whole
>>>> repos.  For example, if someone wanted to rebuild only wine, they
>>>> should be able to say "abs extra/wine" or have PKGS=(extra/wine) in
>>>> abs.conf and not be required to sync everything.
>>>>
>>>> Dunno if that sounds like a good idea to you or not, but people have
>>>> requested on the forums some method to sync single packages (usually
>>>> as an argument to allow anon svn access)
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>> Well, I had a quick attempt at fixing this.  I can get the command line
>>> arguments working but at the price of a rsync transaction per arguement.
>>>  In
>>> a coincidence "abs extra/wine" now works but syncs it into /var/abs/wine
>>> instead of /var/abs/extra/wine.  I should be able to fix that though.
>>>
>>
>> Hm... dunno if that'd be an acceptable trade-off.  Might put too much
>> load on gerolde that way - one rsync transaction per package in our
>> repos? Yikes.
>>
>
> Not one rsync per package, one rsyn per command line parameter.  So "abs
> core extra" would rsync the core dir followed by rsyncing the extra dir.

Hm... ok, that's not as bad as I thought it might be.  Then if
somebody is syncing a small subset of packages, it'd be one rsync per
package basically.

Is there no way to roll up those rsync commands into a single command?
 Are you using the 'include' filter with exclude-all?