{"id":501,"date":"2018-10-17T15:11:12","date_gmt":"2018-10-17T15:11:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.appservgrid.com\/paw92\/?p=501"},"modified":"2018-10-17T15:57:54","modified_gmt":"2018-10-17T15:57:54","slug":"arch-linux-news-deprecation-of-abs-tool-and-rsync-endpoint","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.appservgrid.com\/paw92\/index.php\/2018\/10\/17\/arch-linux-news-deprecation-of-abs-tool-and-rsync-endpoint\/","title":{"rendered":"Arch Linux &#8211; News: Deprecation of ABS tool and rsync endpoint"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Due to high maintenance cost of scripts related to the Arch Build<br \/>\nSystem, we have decided to deprecate the abs tool and thus rsync<br \/>\nas a way of obtaining PKGBUILDs.<\/p>\n<p>The asp tool, available in [extra], provides similar functionality to<br \/>\nabs. asp export pkgname can be used as direct alternative; more<br \/>\ninformation about its usage can be found in <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/falconindy\/asp\/blob\/master\/man\/asp.1.txt\">the documentation<\/a>.<br \/>\nAdditionally Subversion sparse checkouts, as described <a href=\"https:\/\/www.archlinux.org\/svn\/\">here<\/a>, can<br \/>\nbe used to achieve a similar effect. For fetching all PKGBUILDs, the<br \/>\nbest way is cloning the <a href=\"https:\/\/git.archlinux.org\/svntogit\/\">svntogit<\/a> mirrors.<\/p>\n<p>While the extra\/abs package has been already dropped, the rsync<br \/>\nendpoint (rsync:\/\/rsync.archlinux.org\/abs) will be disabled by the end<br \/>\nof the month.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.archlinux.org\/news\/deprecation-of-abs\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Due to high maintenance cost of scripts related to the Arch Build System, we have decided to deprecate the abs tool and thus rsync as a way of obtaining PKGBUILDs. The asp tool, available in [extra], provides similar functionality to abs. asp export pkgname can be used as direct alternative; more information about its usage &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.appservgrid.com\/paw92\/index.php\/2018\/10\/17\/arch-linux-news-deprecation-of-abs-tool-and-rsync-endpoint\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Arch Linux &#8211; News: Deprecation of ABS tool and rsync endpoint&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-linux"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.appservgrid.com\/paw92\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.appservgrid.com\/paw92\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.appservgrid.com\/paw92\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.appservgrid.com\/paw92\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.appservgrid.com\/paw92\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=501"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.appservgrid.com\/paw92\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":544,"href":"https:\/\/www.appservgrid.com\/paw92\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501\/revisions\/544"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.appservgrid.com\/paw92\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.appservgrid.com\/paw92\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.appservgrid.com\/paw92\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}