On Donnerstag 17 April 2008, Andreas Tille wrote: > On Thu, 17 Apr 2008, Sebastian Hilbert wrote: > > Now that the LIve-CD officially works (TM) with a fully local database > > without user interaction I am looking into fully automatic rebuild on new > > version arrivals. > > Sounds reasonable. > > > I know there is something like a watch file for Debian. > > The watch file informs the Debian maintainer about new upstream versions. > I have to admit that I failed to get a notice about new upstream versions > for packages I would like to watch. I know that I could run uscan on my > machine in a cron job, but I wanted to use the service that is provided > by the Debian-QA team to send an e-mail to the maintainer. IMHO we should > implement this for all Debian Med group maintained packages - but I have no > idea how to do this. Any clue? > > But this does not answer Sebastians question, because he is not interested > in watching upstream (beeing upstream himself he just knows ;-)) but he > wants to know when this is turned into a Debian package and available > from the Debian mirror. > > > Are there any means to > > catch the arrival of a new gnumed in testing and run the script > > rebuild-live-cd which would do this: > > I know that there is a service that sends you an e-mail once a package > has reached testing. I'm not sure whether this service is included into > the subscription you could do at > > http://packages.qa.debian.org/g/gnumed-client.html > > If this is the case then you could create a mailbox say [EMAIL PROTECTED] > subscribe this address to gnumed-client. Then you have to write a procmail > rule that starts a script with ... > > > cd /foo/debian-live > > lh_clean --purge > > lh_build > > ... and whatever is needed and finally forewards the information to your > own mailbox. I think this could be a realistic plan to create the live > CD automatically, but I doubt that it is worth implementing and testing > for an event that happens about once in a month. Sometimes it is enouth > if you just notice the new package in your own mailbox and just start the > script manually. > > > @Debian-med. I am now able to build live-cds for debian-med as well. > > Great. > > > One > > method is a so called package list. If you provide me with a list of > > packages that make up debian-med I can include them to produce a > > Debian-med live CD rather than just a GNUmed live-cd > > > > downloads as always via http://www.gnumed.de/downloads/live-cd > > While I'm interested in this I would rather like to ask you to provide > your script and the data this script is needed at any public place. > I would like to put this into the med-doc package as an example (for > the moment - perhaps we will find some better place). BTW, the med-doc > package needs desperately some work and I hope to get this done soon!!! > It is outdated like smelling fish - blame the maintainer for this. ;-)
There is absolutely no magic on my part. Debian Live's lh_build script does all the magic. All we need to do is feed it a list of packages to pick up. > > Kind regards > > Andreas. > > -- > http://fam-tille.de -- Sebastian Hilbert Leipzig / Germany [www.gnumed.de] -> PGP welcome, HTML ->/dev/null -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]