Re: Public UDD mirror

[Asheesh Laroia <asheesh@asheesh.org>]

On Sun, 7 Jul 2013, Asheesh Laroia wrote:

> Hey all,
>
> I started running a public UDD mirror here: 
> http://public-udd-mirror.xvm.mit.edu/
>
> I'll move it to be on .debian.net as the canonical URL in the near 
> future.
>
> Other to-do items tracked here for now: 
> https://github.com/paulproteus/public-udd-mirror/issues
>
> Happy to take questions or so on here as well. Yay,

As a collection of updates:

* It now auto-updates (hourly) from udd.debian.org/udd.sql.gz (checking 
timestamps before downloading)

* You can see that script here 
https://github.com/paulproteus/public-udd-mirror/blob/master/scripts/update_udd.sh

* The page has some Javascript-based "self-monitoring" where the stamp 
file's Last-Modified header is displayed. Right now, it's Jan 1 1970 
because the first auto-import is in progress, but presumably within 1 hour 
it'll be today's date.

* As a reminder, the full code (including maintenance scripts) are here: 
http://github.com/paulproteus/public-udd-mirror

Question:

* Is there a way to import a UDD dump that does not require erasing the 
whole current DB?

* Is this useful to you? If so, please make me feel good by saying so. (-;

Thanks!

-- Asheesh.