On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 2:51 PM, Eric Bélanger <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 10:23 AM, Allan McRae <[email protected]> wrote: >> Allan McRae wrote: >>> >>> Allan McRae wrote: >>>> >>>> Allan McRae wrote: >>>>> >>>>> Dan McGee wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>> On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 2:59 PM, Aaron Griffin >>>>>> <[email protected]> wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 2:29 PM, Aaron Griffin >>>>>>> <[email protected]> wrote: >>>>>>> >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 2:10 PM, Eric Bélanger >>>>>>>> <[email protected]> wrote: >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 12:01 PM, Aaron Griffin >>>>>>>>> <[email protected]> wrote: >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>> On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 6:39 AM, Allan McRae <[email protected]> >>>>>>>>>> wrote: >>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> Any update for devtools? I'm still using 2.6.29.1-2 as I want to >>>>>>>>> keep >>>>>>>>> using my chroots. >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> If you want to jump ahead: >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> http://code.phraktured.net/cgit.cgi/devtools/commit/?id=ca87391f99760dc6677df419031108e65b588ecd >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> The patch is simple, as aufs supports unionfs syntax too. Actually a >>>>>>>> sed "s/unionfs/aufs/" should actually work too. >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> Make sure to install aufs2-util though >>>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Any qualms with me releasing devtools as it is from git? >>>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> Yes- it installs a communitypkg script that will no longer work with >>>>>> the tupkg uploader, as it has been switched to use the devtools and >>>>>> upload to our other server. >>>>>> >>>>> >>>>> I suppose we can just not distribute that in the package for the time >>>>> being. Anyway, I will be taking the git versions of the building scripts >>>>> for >>>>> a spin later today so I can give them a good testing before you make a >>>>> release. >>>> >>>> Issues I have with makechrootpkg (git master with Aaron's master merged): >>>> >>>> 1) there is a whole heap of issues with using ""'s around variables that >>>> have *'s in them. So the * is not getting expanded and there are issues >>>> copying the completed packages and adding them to a db. I will send a >>>> patch >>>> soon. However the fix stops people using base chroot directories with >>>> spaces in them. I personally don't care about that possibility and prefer >>>> things to work in some form... >>>> >>>> 2) I get output like: >>>> which: no namcap in >>>> (/home/allan/bin:/home/allan/bin:/bin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin/perlbin/site:/usr/bin/perlbin/vendor:/usr/bin/perlbin/core) >>>> because the redirection to /dev/null is not quite right. Again, patch on >>>> its way... >>>> >>> >>> Patch attached. Applies on top of devtools git master with Aaron's master >>> merged on top. >> >> Ignore that patch. Running with this fix exposed an error in the test of >> whether to add a package to a repo. That is included in the patch on my git >> web (http://dev.archlinux.org/~allan/gitweb/gitweb.cgi). >> >> Allan >> >> >> > > Maybe it would be simpler to just push a new devtools package with > only the fix to use aufs2 instead of unionfs to get this out of the > way. After that, we could look into releasing a new tarball from git. > > Eric >
On a related note: What are we going to do with the unionfs-utils package? Remove it? It's out-of-date and on the licence rebuild list.
