Am Freitag, den 05.02.2010, 11:34 +0100 schrieb Alexis Ballier: > > Other sites I'd like to add: > > - pypi > > - google-code > > - ctan ... if someone can identify a key for packages > > I don't know what you exactly mean by a key, but for ctan the > catalogue [1,2] may be what you're looking for. > If I understood correctly, a key would be $PN and the relevant > information found in, e.g., > http://texcatalogue.sarovar.org/entries/${PN}.html > > Note that not all packages have version information; if they don't, one > can probably use the date instead. Last time I checked I didn't have the impression that ${PN} is not enough to get a unique entry for a package on ctan.
> > If I remember correctly, texlive has perl scripts/libs to deal with it, > so it may be possible to reuse them for a bumpchecker. > > Also, definitely +1 for adding more sites, but I think one important > feature is missing: simple http/ftp listing. Not all projects are > hosted on major sites, and having a (more complicated) way of tracking > versions based on a directory listing could be useful. Definitely, but for http/ftp listing checks SRC_URI is probably enough. The only thing which could make it easier is when upstream uses sub-directories for major/minor versions (like gnome for example). In that case something like <remote-id type="ftp">http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/GConf</remote-id> might help to find a new version easier, but I really doubt it. But for now I'd stick to the two cases: a) hosting sites with project numbers/ids/names where we can extract version information in a general way b) arbitrary download sites, in which case a bump checker could try to find new versions by checking for a http/ftp listing or by checking the Changelog (<changelog>...</changelog>) which may also be a good way to know whether something changed at upstream (and then let the developer decide what it was) > I do not know > how to exactly implement that (maybe a regexp to match only the files > we want and a sed/awk script to do the $tarball -> $PV pass). > If I remember correctly debian has something like that for version > tracking, so it may be worth having a look. > > Alexis. > > [1] http://dante.ctan.org/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/catalogue.html > [2] http://texcatalogue.sarovar.org/ -- Tiziano Müller Gentoo Linux Developer Areas of responsibility: Samba, PostgreSQL, CPP, Python, sysadmin, GLEP Editor E-Mail : dev-z...@gentoo.org GnuPG FP : F327 283A E769 2E36 18D5 4DE2 1B05 6A63 AE9C 1E30
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