Alternative to ABS with this little function - comments please

graysky · 2014-08-14 21:59:33

I've been using svn as an alternative to ABS to pull down specific packages for building. Here is what I have in my ~/.zshrc or ~/.bashrc.

1) Is there a more efficient method of implementation? Perhaps in the step where I validate the user provided package name?
2) Any comments are welcomed.

https://gist.github.com/graysky2/123a92d045bb02ce7634

Last edited by graysky (2014-08-14 22:02:16)

Allan · 2014-08-15 10:08:48

So it does the same as "abs core/gcc"?

graysky · 2014-08-15 19:01:01

@Allan - Didn't know abs took tokens like that. Pretty neat. I see two advantages of my method:
1) Users don't need to know which repo the package is in (core, extra, or community) since the scriptlet figures it out.
2) Users can optionally get the files associated with trunk rather than what's in the repos.

Thanks for the reply!

Last edited by graysky (2014-08-15 19:01:14)

jasonwryan · 2014-08-15 19:02:52

Have you checked out asp?

Arch Linux

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Alternative to ABS with this little function - comments please

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