abs cleans out /var/abs

B-Con · 2008-04-17 06:31:13

Question: Does abs now clean out all non-recognized directories in /var/abs intentionally? I used to keep everything from the AUR in /var/abs/aur, including some of my own stuff I *was* working on, but after running the newly upgraded abs I find everything in /var/abs gone except for, core, extra, local, README, testing, and unstable -- my AUR directory is gone, which is at least moderately upsetting... :S

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/etc/abs = /var/abs in first sentence.

Last edited by B-Con (2008-08-17 20:00:02)

Allan · 2008-04-17 06:36:26

As you have noticed, apart from the core/extra/community/etc directories that abs downloads, it only keeps the local directory.

http://archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-dev … 05745.html

B-Con · 2008-04-17 07:06:04

I see.

Well, I have no problem with that, but a warning would've been nice, though, because previous versions hadn't touched my /var/abs/aur .

mintcoffee · 2008-04-18 02:07:18

A warning would definitely be nice, even in the post install. Thanks for bringing this issue up, otherwise I would have lost some custom packages too.

Misfit138 · 2008-04-18 03:06:33

This is how abs works, and why you must create a separate build directory- either in /var/abs/local or elsewhere. You should never modify, or build in, the tree itself, as the ABS wiki entry advises.

Allan · 2008-04-18 03:12:02

@Misfit138: I think you missed the point. If you named you separate build directory /var/abs/build, then it was deleted...

Misfit138 · 2008-04-18 03:17:44

Allan wrote:

@Misfit138: I think you missed the point. If you named you separate build directory /var/abs/build, then it was deleted...

You're absolutely right, I missed that, sorry. *Sigh* I need to get more sleep.

Cerebral · 2008-04-18 11:59:39

ABS has always owned /var/abs/* - that's why /var/abs/local was provided for your _locally_created_ PKGBUILDs.

That said, the move to rsync has created different behaviour in that regard, and I suppose a warning couldn't hurt.

schivmeister · 2008-04-18 17:08:47

that is why i have /home/abs

tomk · 2008-04-18 19:35:28

I'd second that - building packages under $HOME makes a lot more sense to me.

Mr.Elendig · 2008-04-18 22:34:59

Here are my toughts:

/var/abs/local -- a place to share/store custom/local/aur PKGBUILD's.
$HOME/build (or similar) -- where you should do the actual building of pkg's

B-Con · 2008-04-19 20:50:49

ABS just upgraded again today, I see a warning that /var/abs gets cleaned out. Thanks devs.

yowwww · 2008-08-17 16:29:19

Awesome. Ran abs yesterday and received no warning whatsoever and lost about 100 PKGBUILDS that I had been using for the past several years. Not cool at all. I suppose there is no way to retrieve them either. It was a created directory under /var/abs.

B-Con · 2008-08-17 19:59:15

Ouch.

How long had it been since you'd last abs'd? It's been like that for about four months.

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sand_man · 2008-08-17 23:19:04

Isn't this the standard functionality of rsync?

B-Con · 2008-08-17 23:29:38

sand_man wrote:

Isn't this the standard functionality of rsync?

AFIAK, it is. ABS didn't use rsync always, though, so the change caused some unexpected behavior changes. (Perhaps only one, this one.)

yowwww · 2008-08-18 13:45:53

B-Con wrote:

Ouch.
How long had it been since you'd last abs'd? It's been like that for about four months.

It had been a while obviously. I build my own packages so I very rarely ever would run abs because it was extremely uncommon for me to ever have to rebuild a package from core or extra.

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