Op di 30-12-2003, om 01:59 schreef Colin Watson: > On Mon, Dec 29, 2003 at 03:57:50PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: > > On Tue, Dec 09, 2003 at 07:06:13PM -0500, Clint Adams wrote: > > > - how to run madison and wanna-build > [...] > > Is there any progress on any of the above? > > I've almost finished writing a tool with the same interface as madison > that works on Packages and Sources files, so can be run on any mirror. > (Naturally it's slower than the real thing.) I'll put it up for > experimentation shortly. That's not good enough. What makes madison interesting is _not_ its interface; rather, the fact that the information is up-to-date with the latest uploads. Madison has been a great help to me many times when people started asking questions on m68k-build about whether or not their packages were uploaded. It's happened that wanna-build contained slightly incorrect information (due to network outages between a buildd and the wanna-build database, human errors, and other such things that cannot easily be worked around by programming). In such situations, the ability to check whether a certain package is in the archive _now_ can be invaluable to do my work in a reasonable way. Losing that ability in the name of "security" is not acceptable. I can live with a "madison" -or similar- tool on another host being _slightly_ out-of-sync (say, at max 15 minutes or so), or with a web-interface that would replace madison for non-admins; but having to wait a full day (or rather, a full mirror pulse) for this kind of information being available is just too much. I know how to grep through a Packages- and a Sources-file, and compare them (there're packages called 'grep-dctrl' and 'quinn-diff' for a reason), but that's not the point. -- Wouter Verhelst Debian GNU/Linux -- http://www.debian.org Nederlandstalige Linux-documentatie -- http://nl.linux.org Most people have two reasons for doing anything -- a good reason, and the real reason
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