On Mon, Jul 7, 2008 at 8:33 AM, Allan McRae <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Travis Willard wrote: >> >> On Mon, Jul 7, 2008 at 8:21 AM, Allan McRae <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>> >>> Travis Willard wrote: >>> >>>> >>>> On Sun, Jul 6, 2008 at 9:01 PM, Allan McRae <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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?
