Re: Help & advise on using WML constructs to create pages.
On Mon Oct 29, 2007 at 10:37:56 +0100, Gerfried Fuchs wrote:
> Am Sonntag, den 28.10.2007, 21:08 +0000 schrieb Steve Kemp:
> > Right section of the website beneath [english]/security/audit is a little
> > out of date. It is primarily out of date because the information contained
> > there is contained in the HTML, and that makes keeping it current harder
> > than it should be.
>
> What exactly do you mean with "right section"? Am a bit puzzled about
> that.
That was bad editing upon my part. What I meant to say was:
"Right now the section of the website beneath ..."
> It is due to the using of
> #use wml::debian::recent_list
Thanks.
> and the file english/template/debian/recent_list.wml in which this perl
> function is coded out. Said that, you can implement near to everything
> with some tricky perl code, like grepping through the DSAs and take
> those that match 'security.*audit' or similar, though things that would
> run longer like querying the BTS, if you are refering to the lists of
> bugs and want to automatically extract their informations too, should be
> not get done in a webwml run but in a seperate cronjob and then on the
> webwml run only parse the data in a file written by the other job.
OK I think that might be a good way forward. I'll have a play
around with it over the coming week. I guess there is no real
urgency, it just bothers me that the process is a little fiddly and
I'm mostly to blame for that.
> Definitely, but you will have to tweak the get_recent_list function.
> Please be extremely careful with it, it's used very widely across the
> site and people might get angry if you break it.
Thanks!
I think I'll either copy that locally, or write a perl script. The
latter is probably the fastest way given that I don't need too
much done.
Steve
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