Re: searching for rebuild daemon?

[Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net>]

On 10/24/08 08:26, Peter Jordan wrote:
> Ron Johnson, 10/24/2008 07:46 AM:
>
> > On 10/23/08 23:54, Peter Jordan wrote:
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > > I'm searching for a daemon which checks if a newer version of a package
> > > is available, downloads its sorces, patches the sources, rebuilds the
> > > package and if that all successes then the daemon should upload the new
> > > package to my debian repository.
> > Hmmm, I wouldn't trust such an end-to-end string of important tasks to
> > an automated, light's-out process.  I'd want to give first approval to
> > deciding whether to build the package or not.
> >
> > > Is there any working solution?
> > From deb-src, or from upstream?
>
> from deb-src

I think that I'd look at apt-show-versions (which is a Perl script) 
and fork/modify it into looking at deb-src instead of "deb".

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