Re: [9fans] package system for Plan 9: alpha!

[ron minnich <rminnich@gmail.com>]

On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 6:47 PM, Akshat Kumar
<akumar@mail.nanosouffle.net> wrote:
> On 5/16/10, ron minnich <rminnich@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Between this package tool and mercurial for sources, I don't expect to
>> ever need to run replica again.
>
> How do you plan to keep up with updates
> to contrib repos people keep on sources?

the BUILD tool rebuilds it all on demand.

> Will the contrib -> iso.bz2 conversion take
> place on a nightly basis? Some sort of
> keeping tabs on modification times?

it's actually reasonably fast, rebuilding all the files for all the
packages takes  < 10 minutes, and that's without any parallelism in
the creation ... so it's not a big deal to rerun this every night.

Total size of a tar transfer is 500 mbytes or so, and when I use rx
that also is done quickly.

>
> Perhaps it would be nice if people with
> contrib repos could themselves make the
> ISOs and upload to 9grid or put it wherever
> the central iso.bz2 repo will be.

Yes, if we decide we like this format we can do that.

The build tool does deal with ambiguities and issues:

- contrib names things as name/package or package (well people do),
which I have to handle.
- Also, people mix one or more projects in their root/ directories, so
I use the replica/package/proto files to build the .iso.bz2.

Really, if people do no more than what they do now, that's fine for me
to keep building this set of files. It's really just a script.

So I run a script to keep the bitbucket sysfromiso repo up to date,
usually daily, and I can do that with this script as well.

ron