Re: Fetching DDTP and debconf template translations efficiently

[Denis Barbier <barbier@linuxfr.org>]

On Sun, Aug 06, 2006 at 03:08:24AM +0300, Gintautas Miliauskas wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> > > it's about time to get Debian some actual visible benefit from my
> > > project, so I would be interested in a nice way to automatically
> > > fetch the complete archive of DDTP translations and debconf
> > > templates (one of these would be enough for starters).  I would
> > > like to run it daily, so efficient solutions would be preferred.
> 
> Thanks, Otavio, for a concise reply about DDTP.  I am still interested
> in debconf templates though.
> 
> I have noticed that the debconf l10n status pages in Debian
> (http://www.debian.org/intl/l10n/po-debconf/) point to
> http://merkel.debian.org/~barbier/l10n/material/po/...
> 
> Downloading these would be much easier than downloading all Debian
> packages and extracting their Debconf translations.  Still, there are
> quite a few files there and I would be a bit reluctant to run a
> recursive download, especially a regularly scheduled one.  Should I
> just do the download, or is there a possibility to get all the files
> together in a single tarball?  Thanks.

Hi,

I just modified the cron job to also generate
   http://merkel.debian.org/~barbier/l10n/material/po-debconf.tar.gz
Please tell me if this is what you are looking for.

Denis