Date: Mon, 3 Jan 2011 13:53:43 +0100
From: Natanael Copa <ncopa@alpinelinux.org>
To: Jeff Bilyk <jbilyk@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [alpine-devel] Managing source packages
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On Sat, 1 Jan 2011 12:52:49 -0500
Jeff Bilyk <jbilyk@gmail.com> wrote:

> Personally, I like the simplicity of not having to redo the build
> infrastructure to accommodate source packages.  If abuild srcpkg was
> working and a script existed to parse aports tree and alert when a
> source package was no longer available, I think that the current
> setup is ok.

Yeah, i tend to agree here.

> As far as cleaning out the distfiles cache, a script that runs on
> distfiles.alpinelinux.org and clears out any pre 1.10 source packages
> would be good enough imho.  When 1.10 becomes deprecated, the script
> could then be run to clear out pre2.0 files.

The difficult task is: how do you get a list of source files to
delete that are exclusively pre 1.10?

-nc


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