On Jan 31, 2011 1:15 AM, "Allan McRae" <allan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On 31/01/11 16:27, Ng Oon-Ee wrote: >> >> 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? >> >> Currently, for those (like me) who compulsively update, abs is pretty >> much guaranteed to be behind the latest packages in any mirror (by a max >> of 24 hours). If it doesn't cost (resources etc.) too much for abs to be >> updated every 1 hour, wouldn't this mean that most mirrors are likely to >> be in sync with abs just about all the time? >> >> Obviously I've got self-interest in this, since I auto-patch (using >> bauerbill) some packages from the repos. Its not a huge priority (I can >> manually access the SVN interface, but I think it'd be useful. >> > > The ABS update is quite inefficient... it takes about 15 minutes to run. If this was improved, then I would see no reason not to run it every hour. Saying that, I seem to remember that we were going to run this a few more times a day, but I have no idea what happened to that... I encountered this recently as well; what if we distributed the PKGBUILDs inside the packages? Most are very small AFAIK, and I would like this approach. Or even distribute pkg.src.xz right next to packages? C Anthony [mobile]
