On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 2:37 PM, Aaron Griffin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, May 26, 2008 at 6:00 PM, Xavier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Hello, >> >> stonecrest wrote a very useful script in my opinion a while ago : >> http://www.archlinux.org/pipermail/arch/2007-November/016238.html >> >> However, it hasn't been updated since the svn move and the new abs. >> It had a feature to fetch the abs tree itself, using csup directly. But >> anyway it is not required, abs can be used manually instead, so I just >> removed that part. >> The second problem is the directory structure, which is now different for >> core/extra/etc, where the package dir are on the first level, compared to >> community which still has the old layout with an additional level of >> category. This breaks the following function : >> def repo_from_path(path): >> return path.split("/")[-4] >> It should be -4 for community and -3 for the rest. >> Instead I just used 3, but it will only work on /var/abs/ tree (or any other >> structure with just 2 directory levels). >> Anyway, this was just two quick hacks to get the script working again and >> see what were its results now. And it is still far from perfect :) >> >> I think this script is something that packagers (of the official repos) >> should check regularly to ensure the quality of arch pkgbuilds and packages. > > I think I might add this in to this set of "repo maintenance" cron > jobs so that it will email the dev list once a day. It's definitely > worth it. > > I just checked it in in the dbscripts repo. > http://projects.archlinux.org/?p=dbscripts.git;a=commit;h=1c9a21bdf378ddd3572b3b8f405d99b3063521c9 > (Thanks Scott) > > Travis, would you mind taking a look at this and patching it to work > over the /home/abs tree on gerolde?
Sure - I probably won't get to it tonight though. I've starred this in gmail, so hopefully I'll remember. ;) Feel free to poke me relentlessly about it if I don't produce anything before the end of the week.
