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@@ -0,0 +1,83 @@ +The executables that you (might) care about are: + + dbscripts/ + ├── cron-jobs/ + │ ├── db-cleanup [Parabola only] + │ ├── devlist-mailer + │ ├── ftpdir-cleanup + │ ├── integrity-check + │ ├── make_repo_torrents [Parabola only] + │ ├── sourceballs + │ ├── update-web-db [Arch Linux only] + │ └── update-web-files-db [Arch Linux only] + ├── db-check-nonfree [Parabola only] + ├── db-check-nonfree-in-db [Parabola only] + ├── db-check-package-libraries [Parabola only] + ├── db-check-repo-sanity [Parabola only] + ├── db-check-unsigned-packages [Parabola only] + ├── db-check-unsigned-packages.py [Parabola only] + ├── db-import-archlinux-any-to-ours [Parabola only] + ├── db-import-archlinux-pkg [Parabola only] + ├── db-import-archlinux-src [Parabola only] + ├── db-import-archlinuxarm-pkg [Parabola only] + ├── db-init [Parabola only] + ├── db-move + ├── db-remove + ├── db-repo-add + ├── db-repo-remove + ├── db-update + ├── make_individual_torrent [Parabola only] + └── testing2x [Arch Linux only] + +Ok, now let's talk about what those are. + +There are 3 "main" programs: + + - db-update : add packages to repositories + - db-move : move packages from one repository to another + - db-remove : remove packages from repositories + +Of course, sometimes things go wrong, and you need to drop to a +lower-level, but you don't want to go all the way down to pacman's +repo-add/repo-remove. So, we have: + + - db-repo-add + - db-repo-remove + +Now, we'd like to be able to check that the repos are all OK, so we +have + + - cron-jobs/integrity-check + +Instead of enhancing integrity-check, Parabola developers have decided +to write multiple stand-alone tools that should probably be merged +into integrity-check + + - db-check-* + +When we remove a package from a repository, it stays in the package +"pool". We would like to be able to eventually remove packages from +the pool, to reclaim the disk space: + + - cron-jobs/ftpdir-cleanup + - cron-jobs/db-cleanup + +Both of these programs do the exact same thing. Parabola developers +decided to write their own from scratch, instead of modifying +ftpdir-cleanup. They should eventually be merged. + +But, Parabola doesn't just publish our own packages, we also import +packages from elsewhere: + + - db-import-${source}* + +Unfortunately, these scripts are horribly duct-taped together and are +aweful. I hate them. + +Things that haven't been mentioned yet: + + - cron-jobs/devlist-mailer + - cron-jobs/make_repo_torrents + - cron-jobs/sourceballs + - db-init + - make_individual_torrent |