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Re: About /org/www.debian.org/cron/daily_updates scripts



On Tue, Aug 28, 2001 at 12:39:33PM +0200, Denis Barbier wrote:
> it looks to me as if these scripts could be useful also for a local
> checked out working directory, at least for some of them which retrieve
> files needed during compilation. We could also perform some other tasks,
> e.g. to avoid the makefile/Makefile trick by Josip under
> /international/l10n ;)
> 
> For instance,
>   webwml/
>      pre_build          Call scripts under scripts_prebuild/
>      scripts_prebuild/
>         1Maintainer     Get ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/indices/Maintainers
>         1lists_cfg      Get http://murphy.debian.org/lists.cfg
>         5countries_def  Generate english/template/debian/countries.def
>         5l10n           Generate english/international/l10n/data/langs
>         ...
>         download_area/  Directory where downloaded files reside
> 
> This is trivial, I will do if you believe it is useful.

Why, exactly? I mean, who cares? I've never needed any of these in my local
CVS trees, YMMV.

> PS: cron/daily_updates/1lists.cfg is not executed since ``filenames
>     should consist entirely of upper and lower case letters, digits,
>     underscores, and hyphens''.

I'll fix this, thanks.

P.S.: real bugs shouldn't be mentioned in P.S. :)

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