On Sun, May 26, 2002 at 04:18:47AM +0200, Christian Jaeger wrote: > Finally someone asking about what I'm having in mind since i'm using > Woody...:) - namely a helper app that allows you to > 1. let your production machines run without having to do risky > upgrades just to be sure that you won't miss security updates. > 2. favourably also check the current unstable changelogs so that you > will not be "burned" because of the ~2 week delay in woody.
apt-get install apt-listchanges > At 15:11 Uhr -0400 24.05.2002, Matt Zimmerman wrote: > >I wrote a program to extract changelogs from source packages and place them > >in a relational database, and a CGI program to fetch changelogs for an > >arbitrary range of versions, but it would have to be run automatically from > >katie or such to be useful, and I got no response to inquiries about that. > > Would the idea be to then provide those entries on a central public > server? That would sound cool. What do you mean with 'would have to be run > from katie'? Yes, the idea would be to provide a CGI or suchlike which could retrieve changelogs on-demand without downloading the entire (source) package. The import program would have to be run each time a new package was added to the archive, in order to keep it up to date. -- - mdz -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
