kiss 2.0.0 and Overall Changes

posted on 2020-05-28

-Carbs Linux kiss version 2.0.0 has been released which introduces rsync -repositories. -

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-Git is no longer a mandatory dependency for the package manager, every git -source on the core repository has been replaced with https sources (sbase, -sinit), and rootfs tarballs will no longer ship with git. Repositories in the -upcoming tarball will be rsync repositories. -

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-Git is now on the extra repository and is still (optionally) used in the -package manager. -

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-The idea behind this change is size reductions and increased speed with rsync. -As I said on the previous post, git repositories get larger and larger over the -time span. Currently my personal copy of the git repository is around 77MB and I -have forked KISS Linux (as a shallow copy) around December. Obviously, I have -commits that I ommitted. I tend to create commits I dislike, which I change with -git reset --soft HEAD^, which doesn't actually remove the commits, etc. A user -will have a repository much smaller than mine. -

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-This is a precaution with the added bonuses of speed and dropping a mandatory -dependency. -

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-You can see the rest of the changelog here. -

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Binary Repositories

-A few days ago, I have also published kiss-bin, a first version for managing -binary repositories. Currently, there are some caveats that I'll be fixing along -the way. I decided not to include this in the package manager natively as -managing the source based and binary based packages together adds levels of -complexity that we do not want. Instead, this is an extension for kiss which -sources the package manager as a library. I hope to see it being adopted by -others interested on the matter as well. -