Bug#348971: qa.debian.org: please consider converting PTS to a CSS layout
On Wed, Feb 01, 2006 at 09:39:54AM +0100, Florian Weimer wrote:
> * Marc Haber:
> > I want to check whether a given package has migrated from unstable to
> > testing in a cron job, and this cron job should be able to run on a
> > host that doesn't have a local archive.
>
> With the arrivale of Packages diffs, it's actually rather cheap (in
> terms of network bandwidth) to maintain a local mirror of the archive
> metadata. AFAICS, you only need the Sources files, so the disk space
> consumption shouldn't be an obstacle, either.
Having never really understood the rather sparsely documented apt.conf
syntax, I am reluctant to use apt to keep metadata current on a system
without root privileges. Additionally, parsing the Sources file is
another challenge. And again additionally, I don't want to get alerts
just because my mirror is down or desynced.
I was rather content with parsing packages.debian.org output.
Greetings
Marc
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