Re: update packages on octave-forge

[Paul Kienzle]

On Jun 1, 2007, at 3:58 AM, David Bateman wrote:

> What would be good is if there was a way to have a generic name on the 
> website resolve to the latest package tar-ball in the sourceforge FRS. 
> It that way the website updates could be isolated from the FRS 
> updates, and the package owner could do the uploads themselves. Any 
> ideas how to do this?

The best I can think of is to run a nightly cron job that scours the 
index files of all listed packages.  This could either be via the 
web-cvs interface (brittle) or by running cvs update on a local copy of 
the repository.

If any package version number has changed, it can download the package 
directory, build the tarball, and upload it via something like:

        Perl - http://search.cpan.org/~bdfoy/Module-Release-1.16/lib/Release.pm
   Python - http://releaseforge.sourceforge.net/

It could then run the usual webpage update procedure (now 
build-www.py?).

Because uploading requires a password, this will have to be done on a 
private machine rather than using sourceforge cron.  This same machine 
could be used as a gateway for uploading 3rd party packages.

Are there any python/perl experts in the audience that can write such a 
beast and anyone willing to host such a service?

        - Paul