recent ongoings with packages.debian.org et al
Hi,
Matt's patch for packages.d.o generation scripts seems to have worked fine,
with a couple of tweaks.
In the meantime I've been told that Jason didn't allow NFS mounting (reason
not stated) so I went ahead and made a script[1] to get the Contents-* files
from a nearby mirror site. Interestingly enough, we should have had such a
script for that already, in order for the CGI[2] to search over non-US
files. So, that's all set up now, the script will run daily and update the
files using wget -N (I thought that was better than weekly even though they
get regenerated weekly, because they might change unexpectedly for whatever
reason[3]). I've modified the CGI script to grep over the non-US file for
the selected distribution, it seems to be working fine.
During testing the CGI, however, I discovered that the simple patch to make
links to per-package web pages wasn't quite enough -- it didn't handle the
case where two packages own a file, and it didn't handle packages in contrib
and non-free. I've fixed the latter (simple) and kludged around the former;
I suspect someone will have a patch to fix that (and have the script make
coffee, too ;) within hours :)
Note that if the old mirror on master:/debian2/ was removed we could see if
anything still uses it almost instantly... and get loads of free space for
all that warez and mp3s^W^W^W^W^W^W too, of course :)
[1] master.debian.org:/org/packages.debian.org/contents/refetch
[2] master.debian.org:/org/cgi.debian.org/cgi-bin/search_contents.pl
[3] Bug#82551: Contents files in stable contain weird binary characters :)
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