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[ikiwiki.git] / doc / todo / parse_debian_packages.mdwn

diff --git a/doc/todo/parse_debian_packages.mdwn b/doc/todo/parse_debian_packages.mdwn
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--- a/doc/todo/parse_debian_packages.mdwn
+++ b/doc/todo/parse_debian_packages.mdwn
@@ -8,6 +8,8 @@ a helpful index page to a small repository, listing all the
 packages, and possibly their descriptions as well, with links to
 download them or their sources.
 
 packages, and possibly their descriptions as well, with links to
 download them or their sources.
 

+--Cameron
+

 > It's a good idea, I think there are probably several ways to approach it
 > that would all yeild good, though differing results. Maybe with
 > something like this I'd actually get around to posting ikiwiki debs to
 > It's a good idea, I think there are probably several ways to approach it
 > that would all yeild good, though differing results. Maybe with
 > something like this I'd actually get around to posting ikiwiki debs to


@@ -27,7 +29,17 @@ would then not be picked up until the ikiwiki is recompiled.
 > This could be done by adding a hook to reprepro/whatever that calls
 > ikiwiki --refresh at the end of updating a repo. (I don't
 > remember if reprepro has such hooks; mini-dinstall certianly does.)
 > This could be done by adding a hook to reprepro/whatever that calls
 > ikiwiki --refresh at the end of updating a repo. (I don't
 > remember if reprepro has such hooks; mini-dinstall certianly does.)

-> 
+
+>> reprepro doesn't seem to have one, :( though of course creating a
+>> script to do both would work (but it's not optimal). --Cameron
+
+>>> reprepro has two kind of hooks that could be used. One is called
+>>> whenever a Packages file is changed (normaly used to generate
+>>> Packages.diff files, but it does not need to add new files).
+>>> The other (though only available since 2.1) is called whenever
+>>> a package is added or removed (there is an example in the docs
+>>> for extracting changelogs using this). 
+

 > For ikiwiki to notice that the Packages file outside its tree has
 > changed and things need to be updated, a `needsbuild` hook could be
 > used. This seems very doable.
 > For ikiwiki to notice that the Packages file outside its tree has
 > changed and things need to be updated, a `needsbuild` hook could be
 > used. This seems very doable.


@@ -44,7 +56,15 @@ automatically.
 > want to use it for a big repo, and I'd ideally want to keep the packages
 > in a different svn repo, pulled in via svn:externals.
 
 > want to use it for a big repo, and I'd ideally want to keep the packages
 > in a different svn repo, pulled in via svn:externals.
 

-Just some thoughts I had, hope it's not too crazy.<br>
---Cameron
+>> I like it too, more than the easier options, why are the most
+>> interesting solutions always the most complicated? ;)
+
+>> Parsing the files sounds like it might require some outside
+>> dependencies, and given the complexity maybe this should be
+>> a separate package from ikiwiki. Is it possible to package
+>> plugins separately? --Cameron
+
+>>> Sure, a plugin is just a perl library so can easily be packaged
+>>> separately.

 
 

-[[tag wishlist]]
+[[!tag wishlist]]