On Sun, Jul 6, 2008 at 1:47 PM, Travis Willard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, Jul 6, 2008 at 10:31 AM, Allan McRae <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Travis Willard wrote: >>> >>> On Sun, Jul 6, 2008 at 5:33 AM, Allan McRae <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> >>>> >>>> Hi all, >>>> >>>> So looking at abs I noticed it at some stage had the ability to sync >>>> single >>>> repos: >>>> >>>> >>>>> >>>>> abs --help >>>>> >>>> >>>> Arch Build System 2.1 -- synchronization utility >>>> usage: /usr/bin/abs [options] [repository1 [repository2 ...]] >>>> >>>> <snip> >>>> If no argument is given, abs will synchronize the repositories specified >>>> in >>>> /etc/abs.conf. >>>> >>>> >>>> But this no longer works... I'm guessing this came about with the switch >>>> to >>>> rsync. Given it has been a while since the switch to rsync, I'm >>>> concluding >>>> that nobody actually uses this and will remove it rather than fix it. >>>> Any >>>> objections? >>>> >>> >>> Um, actually, that feature came about WITH the switch to rsync. How >>> doesn't it work? >>> >>> >> >> Well, "abs core" syncs every repo, including the ones I have disabled in >> /etc/abs.conf. It is because repos are disabled from being synced, not >> enabled. Am I doing something wrong? > > Doesn't sound like you're doing anything wrong. :/ In any case, I > don't think stripping that feature out is the proper way to go - it > shoud be fixed if it's broken, not removed.
Wait wait - are you talking about JUST the command-line functionality? ie. keeping the REPOS=(...) abs.conf syntax, but just removing the abs core syntax? I suppose that works - I thought you were planning on stripping the repo-selection feature entirely.
