Re: [arch-haskell] What to do now?

On 09/10/10 23:17, Rémy Oudompheng wrote:

Magnus Therning wrote:

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On 09/10/10 09:43, Rémy Oudompheng wrote: [...]

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- a darcs repo for the PKGBUILDs

1. Are you suggesting we keep binary versions of *all* of hackage in a repo, or 2. we keep PKGBUILDs for all of hackage in an ABS tree, and only provide binaries for a subset of packages?

I suggest we keep PKGBUILDs for as many packages as we want, and provide binary packages for either each of them, or just a subset, for example the set of packages currently on AUR, and add packages to that list on demand.

The set of packages currently on AUR is *huge*, I think Don recently mentioned something in the order of 2000 haskell packages on AUR, and that is about 10% of AUR. I would suggest starting somewhat smaller than that :-) Maybe starting from Haskell Platform and growing on demand from that?

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* one dir per package, and subdirs $package/trunk, $package/repo (holding the current WIP version of the PKGBUILD and one corresponding to the binary package in repo) * people are supposed to do only a partial checkout of the darcs repo, I know Git can do that, but that said, a full working copy is only a few thousand files. Is darcs as efficient as Git for storage ? I expect the transfer size for a full cloning to be less than 5MB.

It's worth clarifying here that while git does support partial checkout it doesn't support partial cloning. darcs supports lazy cloning, and I think git does as well.

Just to get some numbers I downloaded the cabal files for for the latest version of all packages on Hackage. Then I ran cabal2arch on it all. After that I attempted to put the results in darcs and git.

Adding all files, 100 at a time:

* darcs: 522.18s user 5.49s system 99% cpu 8:48.96 total * git: 1.90s user 0.77s system 97% cpu 2.726 total

Record/commit of initial changeset:

* darcs: NA, it seems frozen with: 5548 done, 5480 queued * git: 0.33s user 0.32s system 57% cpu 1.128 total

There are a total of 4528 files in the (git) repo and 'du -sh' says that it takes 57M.

Thank you. What is the size of the git repo itself (I mean the .git subdir) ? It is probably only a few megabytes, so it can probably be hosted anywhere.

The size of the .git dir is: % du -sh .git 30M .git For comparison I changed strategy for darcs, instead I recorded each package in its own changeset: Total time to add and record: 7638.14s user 1108.26s system 99% cpu 2:26:04.82 total Size of the whole work area: 436M Size of _darcs: 409M /M -- Magnus Therning (OpenPGP: 0xAB4DFBA4) magnus＠therning．org Jabber: magnus＠therning．org http://therning.org/magnus identi.ca|twitter: magthe