Re: Need help with uscan
On Thu, Apr 25, 2019 at 9:00 AM Ben Finney wrote:
> Andrius Merkys writes:
> > I am wondering if it would be possible to write uscan rules to extract
> > the timestamp and download the upstream tarball by analyzing [the HTML
> > of the index page]
>
> I don't know enough about hacking UScan for custom mangling like that.
> AFAIK, the mangling that UScan does is built into the tool, I don't know
> about custom extensions.
uscan now supports arbitrary mangling of the page HTML using the
pagemangle option. This combined with the downloadurlmangle option
could easily accommodate this website.
I think that would be a workaround and the real fix is to talk
upstream into importing their code into a VCS and producing properly
signed and tagged releases (with signed versioned tarballs).
--
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pabs
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