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Re: [Debian-l10n-devel] DDTSS is working well ?




On 25 September 2013 22:06, Joerg Jaspert <joerg@debian.org> wrote:

> Right now I'm working on puppetising the whole setup and I'm going to try
> to include some documentation in there. But the biggest issue here is that
> when there is a new release the name of 'testing' changes, and that
> requires updating half a dozen scripts. There really needs to be a better
> way to do that. Is there a supported automatable way to determine what
> testing currently is, so that scripts can detect when it happens and warn
> about it?

Look at any (full) mirrors dists/ where the {testing,stable,...}
symlinks point to?


That seems reasonable, except I don't see how you can reliably check for symlinks on a mirror via HTTP/FTP. Sure, as a human looking it seems fairly clear, but it's not something I'd feel comfortable automating.

lftp seems to do a reasonable job with ftp, so parsing the output of "cls" on ftp.debian.org seems doable (look for an @ symbol), but somewhat obtuse. I was hoping for a file that said "stable wheezy".

Have a nice day,

--
Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog@gmail.com> http://svana.org/kleptog/

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