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DonVla

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From: Bonn, Germany

Registered: 2007-06-07

Posts: 996

abs 2.0 and community

hello,

running abs alone doesn't upgrade the community repo, though in my abs.conf:

root@freedomfighter:/var/abs # cat /etc/abs.conf
#
# /etc/abs/abs.conf
#

# the top-level directory of all your PKGBUILDs
[ "$ABSROOT" = "" ] && ABSROOT="/var/abs/"

#
# Server to sync from
#
SYNCSERVER="rsync.archlinux.org"

#
# The architecture to fetch abs for
# Either i686 or x86_64
#
ARCH="i686"

#
# REPOS to be parsed by abs (in this order)
#   (prefix a repo with a ! to disable it)
#
# Note: If a repo is removed, it is still fetched!
# Repos must be preceded with a ! to prevent fetching
#
REPOS=(core extra community !unstable !testing)

running

abs community

syncs testing and unstable?

vlad

Last edited by DonVla (2008-04-16 08:03:27)

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Allan

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From: Brisbane, AU

Registered: 2007-06-09

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Re: abs 2.0 and community

It will be fixed soon...
http://archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-gen … 17391.html

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DonVla

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From: Bonn, Germany

Registered: 2007-06-07

Posts: 996

Re: abs 2.0 and community

yep, thanks.

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torin_dan

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Registered: 2008-04-10

Posts: 8

Re: abs 2.0 and community

I'm behind a very restrictive firewall (which I can't alter in any way)

While abs was using csup, everything worked just fine.

Now with rsync I can't checkout anything.

It hangs for few minutes with "Starting ABS sync..." then throws "failed to connect to rsync.archlinux.org: connection timed out (110)"

Any thoughts?

cactus

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Re: abs 2.0 and community

rsync uses a different port.
i believe cvsupd uses tcp port 5999.
rsync uses tcp port 873.

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wonder

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Re: abs 2.0 and community

community issue haven't been fix

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dolby

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Registered: 2006-08-08

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Re: abs 2.0 and community

wait for next abs release. it will probably move to extra too. which is a better place for it

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DonVla

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From: Bonn, Germany

Registered: 2007-06-07

Posts: 996

Re: abs 2.0 and community

it will probably move to extra too. which is a better place for it

heh? move to extra?? why? isn't "ABS - The Arch Build System" one of the _core_  components of arch?
abs is imo as important as pacman. the idea is to encourage people to use abs, if they don´t like things the way they are.
then there will be no tedious discussions about this feature or that feature or out-of-date or similar (at least i hope so).
to neglect abs is a turn in the wrong direction.

vlad

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torin_dan

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Registered: 2008-04-10

Posts: 8

Re: abs 2.0 and community

rsync uses a different port.
i believe cvsupd uses tcp port 5999.
rsync uses tcp port 873.

Knowing this doesn't help me at all.
I still can't use abs because I can't change anything on firewall i'm behind (I don't even know where that firewall is, i only know it exists and is VERY restrictive)

Is there any other way to synchronize to repositories? like once in a while a "wget -r -np" on some url? or anything that uses more-or-less standard ports ?

Or maybe push a package "abs-tree" or something, generated every time repositories change, for users like me?

Later edit:
As far as I know abs tree is not quite pure SVN, it's generated from SVN in a form which is accepted by abs. This way it's not hard to also generate a package which contains current snapshot of abs tree. I think that it's pretty elegant solution.

It probably shouldn't be pushed to repositories on EVERY update, but let say once in few days (or even a week) would be great.
You even may simply upload it somewhere on webserver (without including in repositories) and put a link

Last edited by torin_dan (2008-04-18 13:15:10)

gothmog.todi

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From: Austria

Registered: 2007-07-18

Posts: 120

Re: abs 2.0 and community

it will probably move to extra too. which is a better place for it

heh? move to extra?? why? isn't "ABS - The Arch Build System" one of the _core_  components of arch?
abs is imo as important as pacman. the idea is to encourage people to use abs, if they don´t like things the way they are.
then there will be no tedious discussions about this feature or that feature or out-of-date or similar (at least i hope so).
to neglect abs is a turn in the wrong direction.

vlad

http://archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-dev … 05817.html

torin_dan

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Registered: 2008-04-10

Posts: 8

Re: abs 2.0 and community

it will probably move to extra too. which is a better place for it

heh? move to extra?? why? isn't "ABS - The Arch Build System" one of the _core_  components of arch?
abs is imo as important as pacman. the idea is to encourage people to use abs, if they don´t like things the way they are.
then there will be no tedious discussions about this feature or that feature or out-of-date or similar (at least i hope so).
to neglect abs is a turn in the wrong direction.

ABS is important, however as one of devs said is chicken-egg problem:
In order to use abs, you need an up & running arch installation with network access. If you have it, you can just "pacman -S abs", and continue from there.

Right now abs is not installed by default, so you need to install it anyway.