Re: pull request
On Tue, 19 Oct 2010, Yaroslav Halchenko wrote:
> On Tue, 19 Oct 2010, Yaroslav Halchenko wrote:
> > d'oh... I guess I rushed too much (again)... sorry -- let me think about
> > it a bit more
>
> I guess the only somewhat a generic way to do that is to introduce
> ability for custom hooks comprehending semantics of the browsed archive;
> since snapshotting itself archive-agnostic (i.e. per se does not know
> much about Debian archive structure ;), right?)
>
> So, with some "pluggable" interface, little function hooked into
> _dir_helper could obtain following logic:
>
> if current dir from <archive>, <date> and path matching
> dists/<some_release> carries file Release.gpg, make file
>
> snapshot.<archive>.<date>.<some_release>.list
>
> available containing
>
> deb http://${g.domain}/archive/<archive>/<date> <some_release> <subdirectories in that directory>
> deb-src ...
>
> and in the long run, such mechanism could allow for making archive
> representation easily customizable per specific flavors of the explored
> archives and the actual content...
>
> ... but if you do not like it -- lets forget about that ;)
Yeah, I'm not sure we want that. It seems hackish and ugly :)
Cheers
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