On Mon, 2011-01-31 at 10:18 +0100, Thomas Bächler wrote: > Am 31.01.2011 07:27, schrieb Ng Oon-Ee: > > This is more a general question, I understand abs is updated every 24 > > hours. Would more regular updates (say, every 1 hour or so) be better? > > A bit off-topic: You don't have to use ABS if you don't need a complete > tree. > > For a single package: > > svn co svn://svn.archlinux.org/packages/$pkgname/trunk > or > svn co svn://svn.archlinux.org/packages/$pkgname/repos/testing-i686 > or similar. Replace 'packages' with 'community' for community and > multilib packages. > This gives direct access to the subversion tree, so it is instant on > updates. However, if people start trying to checkout the complete tree, > we will shut it down, as subversion is incredibly inefficient. > > You can also pull the git tree (see [1]), which is updated every two > hours, if you need the complete tree. > > [1] https://projects.archlinux.org/svntogit/ > Indeed this is the easy way out, when there was the svn webui you could download a tar. When i want to rebuild a package I always grabbed it from the website. Providing a whole abs tree updated every hour seems a bit too much overhead if you ask me. If you want the latest pkgbuild of foo just checkout the web ui or svn. I can't imagine a user waiting for a updated package of foo when there is a new version out and he wants to rebuild. (He just does that himself) To rest my case, i think the current situation is good enough. -- Jelle van der Waa
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