* Marc Haber:
> On Wed, Feb 01, 2006 at 09:47:59AM +0100, Florian Weimer wrote:
>> * Marc Haber:
>> > Having never really understood the rather sparsely documented apt.conf
>> > syntax, I am reluctant to use apt to keep metadata current on a system
>> > without root privileges.
>>
>> The secure-t
On Wed, Feb 01, 2006 at 09:47:59AM +0100, Florian Weimer wrote:
> * Marc Haber:
> > Having never really understood the rather sparsely documented apt.conf
> > syntax, I am reluctant to use apt to keep metadata current on a system
> > without root privileges.
>
> The secure-testing archive contains
On Thursday, February 09, 2006 9:14 AM, Marc Haber
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> On Tue, Jan 31, 2006 at 11:05:13PM +0100, Jeroen van Wolffelaar wrote:
>> Use http://qa.debian.org/data/ddpo/ddpo_packages, the 2nd and 3rd
>> field in the [foo,bar,baz,.] bit are testing and unstable
>> respective
On Tue, Jan 31, 2006 at 11:05:13PM +0100, Jeroen van Wolffelaar wrote:
> Use http://qa.debian.org/data/ddpo/ddpo_packages, the 2nd and 3rd field
> in the [foo,bar,baz,.] bit are testing and unstable respectively.
That's fully 404 compliant.
Greetings
Marc
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* Adeodato Simó:
>> The secure-testing archive contains a self-contained reimplementation
>> in Python with a very simple command-line interface (guess why).
>
> Ooh, with pdiff support?
Yes, of course. It only mirrors individual files and it's not
terribly efficient -- a better implementation
* Florian Weimer [Wed, 01 Feb 2006 09:47:59 +0100]:
> * Marc Haber:
> >> With the arrivale of Packages diffs, it's actually rather cheap (in
> >> terms of network bandwidth) to maintain a local mirror of the archive
> >> metadata. AFAICS, you only need the Sources files, so the disk space
> >> c
On Tue, 31 Jan 2006, Lars Wirzenius wrote:
> I'm all for a CSS based layout. For automated use of the data, however,
> wouldn't it make sense to provide some kind of interface that is
> suitable for automated use? XML-RPC, or whatever, I'm not familiar with
> the technologies in question.
An alter
On 01/02/06 at 09:43 +0100, Marc Haber wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 01, 2006 at 09:39:54AM +0100, Florian Weimer wrote:
> > * Marc Haber:
> > > I want to check whether a given package has migrated from unstable to
> > > testing in a cron job, and this cron job should be able to run on a
> > > host that doe
* Marc Haber:
>> With the arrivale of Packages diffs, it's actually rather cheap (in
>> terms of network bandwidth) to maintain a local mirror of the archive
>> metadata. AFAICS, you only need the Sources files, so the disk space
>> consumption shouldn't be an obstacle, either.
>
> Having never r
On Wed, Feb 01, 2006 at 09:39:54AM +0100, Florian Weimer wrote:
> * Marc Haber:
> > I want to check whether a given package has migrated from unstable to
> > testing in a cron job, and this cron job should be able to run on a
> > host that doesn't have a local archive.
>
> With the arrivale of Pac
* Marc Haber:
> I want to check whether a given package has migrated from unstable to
> testing in a cron job, and this cron job should be able to run on a
> host that doesn't have a local archive.
With the arrivale of Packages diffs, it's actually rather cheap (in
terms of network bandwidth) to
On Tue, Jan 31, 2006 at 10:32:57PM +0100, Marc Haber wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 31, 2006 at 09:45:14PM +0100, Florian Weimer wrote:
> > * Marc Haber:
> > > the output of the PTS
> > > (http://packages.qa.debian.org/c/clamav-data.html) still uses a
> > > table-driven layout which is a bitch to parse.
> >
ti, 2006-01-31 kello 22:32 +0100, Marc Haber kirjoitti:
> On Tue, Jan 31, 2006 at 09:45:14PM +0100, Florian Weimer wrote:
> > * Marc Haber:
> > > the output of the PTS
> > > (http://packages.qa.debian.org/c/clamav-data.html) still uses a
> > > table-driven layout which is a bitch to parse.
> >
> >
On Tue, Jan 31, 2006 at 09:45:14PM +0100, Florian Weimer wrote:
> * Marc Haber:
> > the output of the PTS
> > (http://packages.qa.debian.org/c/clamav-data.html) still uses a
> > table-driven layout which is a bitch to parse.
>
> Why do you want to parse it in the first place?
I want to check whet
* Marc Haber:
> the output of the PTS
> (http://packages.qa.debian.org/c/clamav-data.html) still uses a
> table-driven layout which is a bitch to parse.
Why do you want to parse it in the first place?
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Hi,
the output of the PTS
(http://packages.qa.debian.org/c/clamav-data.html) still uses a
table-driven layout which is a bitch to parse.
Please consider converting to CSS.
Greetings
Marc
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