[solved] How to use subversion to download software?

synthead · 2008-05-01 03:35:24

I would like to download some PKGBUILDs from the "core" repo with subversion, but I'm very new at it. What can I do to, say, download glibc's PKGBUILD into a folder?

What I am doing ... I installed Lowarch on a very old laptop that is graced by a plentiful assortment of ncurses-based progs Everything is compiled i686 in the official Arch repos, but I've been able to compile PKGBUILDs for common things just fine. I'm getting tired of downloading every little file by hand though, I would rather do something streamlined. The installation is coming along great though. When I make a lot of packages, I'm going to start my own repo so users running Lowarch can upgrade to the latest and greatest. The author of Lowarch is getting caught up with life so I'm just throwing one out there.

Last edited by synthead (2008-05-04 08:23:55)

Allan · 2008-05-01 03:46:55

Haven't tested this out but...

svn checkout -N svn+ssh://archlinux.org/home/svn-packages [optional directory name for checkout]
cd svn-packages [or what you named the directory]
svn update glibc

I could be entirely wrong given I hardly use SVN and haven't tried with the Arch repos yet!

Why not just use abs?

synthead · 2008-05-01 04:36:03

Brilliant, that's exactly what I needed! I know about abs, but I've barely paid attention to it. This is awesome.

It was pretty funny trying to figure out what you meant with google. "abs" gives me a bunch of men. "man abs" still gave me a bunch of men. "men abs checkout" STILL gave me a bunch of men.

Is arch homo?

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[solved] How to use subversion to download software?

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