On 03/25/2017 07:24 AM, Bartłomiej Piotrowski wrote: > Hi all, > > Allan complained yesterday that ABS is apparently broken. Turns out that > most likely it is broken at least since 2016-07-07. > > The script received no changes since 2012-09-07 and the main advantage > it brings is an easy way to pull all PKGBUILDs. But we also provide > public Subversion and Git repositories. Initial svn checkout for > community and packages takes less than 3 minutes on my rather slow > connection (for European standards); obviously subsequent updates are > faster. Full git clone is slow, but shallow one takes ca. 10 seconds > (for both). > > If someone needs to checkout just one package, svn has sparse checkouts > and for git, Dave wrote asp[1]. This brings the question, what is the > point of keeping it running? > > Bartłomiej > > [1] https://github.com/falconindy/asp If we are deprecating ABS (which is yay!) then can we get a stable release of asp in [extra] to replace it? Also would be nice to have an official stance on whether full svn checkouts are okay, since https://www.archlinux.org/svn/ strongly warns people against doing so... and comparing all PKGBUILDs at once is somewhat awkward when using separate branches in git (though git-grep does take multiple trees at least). -- Eli Schwartz
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