On 2011-07-07 18:24, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > On Thu, Jul 07, 2011 at 12:00:38PM +0200, Niels Thykier wrote: >> [...] > > To achieve the above two goals, I need to keep in sync a Debian (source) > mirror with a place where I've all sources unpacked in versioned > directories. Additions/removals to the mirror should be reflected to the > unpacked source storage. I'd also like to be flexible in adding/removing > suites and archive areas to the source mirror, as well as be easily able > to re-extract everything from source. So much for the extraction part. >
So basically incrementally pulling packages from a mirror via Sources file? I cannot help but think we must do something like that on lintian.d.o (especially considering we usually do incremental runs). > Then I need an easy way to access all (unpacked) source packages I have, > query their package metadata, find their root directory and run my > analysis tool of choice on the source package. > Bulk access or a "given package name (possibly + version and arch) give me the rest of the metadata and the root dir of the unpacked package"? > Finally there is also a database part, where I'd like to storage the > result of the analysis tool and keep all the history of it. > Here we just dump everything to a generic log file on l.d.o as I recall, so I doubt I can offer you anything better. > I've ended up cooking up my own code for the above (not all is done > yet), but there clearly a good part of it that could be factored out > (and done better). Do you think the framework you're imagining at this > point could help with any or all of the above? If yes, I'll be happy to > provide testing and/or comment on whether the design would fit the need > of the above use cases. > I think we can do at least the first and most likely also the second. > FWIW, I believe many other wannabe entrants in DACA would benefit from > the addressing of similar use cases. > Part of the reason I am suggesting this. :) > Thanks for sharing and for thinking about this! > Cheers. ~Niels -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-qa-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4e16c177.3060...@thykier.net
