Peter, # Hope you don't mind, but copied this to the list, as I think the idea is potentially revolutionary.
This is a great idea, that could potentially save many hours of work. I would like to see manual (sanity) checks still, as a _belt and braces_ approach. You are right, though, many of the licences won't change. What does anyone think? Many thanks, Chris. On 18/10/2007, Peter Rock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hey Chris, > > Once we get all packages checked, we need to figure out what to do > when we release our next gNS. It seems to me that when we derive from > the next LTS release of Ubuntu, we could use a script that will scan > the copyright file of our current version alongside the copyright of a > new version, compare them, and report if there are any differences. > If so, then the package verifier can manually go in and see if the > wiki's tables need changing. If not, it is instantly checked as > "recently verified free" - perhaps with a date stamp. > > Realistically, 99% of the time the copyright won't change from version > to version but we still need to check every package each time we > distribute a new gNS. Having a program deal with this would save time, > no? We should take advantage of the fact that we now have (or almost > have) a database from which to do comparison from. Otherwise, we have > to do all of the work again from scratch. > > Can the script by Tryggvib and Lee be cannibalized to do something like this? > > Am I making sense? Or have I missed something in this process? > -- Reasons why you may want to try GNU/Linux: http://www.getgnulinux.org/ A great GNU/Linux distro: http://wiki.gnewsense.org/ _______________________________________________ gNewSense-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnewsense-users
