On Sun, Jan 08, 2006 at 04:54:06PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: >On Sun, Jan 08, 2006 at 03:15:32PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: >>Please, everyone, just keep these upload requests as short as possible. It >>reduces the possibility that someone (i.e., me) will miss something if the >>only thing in the request is a bunch of URLs. > >Having just reread the above, and knowing how these things work, let me >clarify. > >In these email messages, I would prefer to *just* see the URLs required >to update a cywgin package. Please do not include any other information >in the request other than that, with the possible exception of a wget >script for retrieving the packages.
Uh oh. By "these email messages", I mean the "please upload" email messages. Other types of messages, like ITP or setup bug reports or discussions about GBS can and should have all sorts of nice prose. In fact, if someone wants to create a nice script for generating these messages which incorporates wget to produce the desired directory structure on sourceware for easy retrieval of new packages, that would be great. What I'd like is something that produces the package directory and any required subdirectories. So, a "please upload" could be nothing other than the shell script that Volker sent in his OP. Then a package uploader could cut and paste that and run it on sourceware to retrieve the packages. If every package upload request had this type of thing it would reduce the possibility of error when uploading. cgf