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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 +8,13 @@ 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.
 
+--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
+> the repo. ;-) --[[Joey]]
+
 I think this is easily possible (and I might be able to work on
 it myself, though Perl is not my strong suit). The trickiest
 part is probably figuring out how and when to parse the packages.
@@ -18,6 +25,25 @@ reprepro/debarchiver/etc.). Or, the packages could be kept
 separate, with only a link given to the plugin, though changes
 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.)
+
+>> 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.
+
 Perhaps a better (though infinitely more complicated) solution
 would be to include the reprepro/debarchiver functionality in
 ikiwiki. Packages could be posted, like blog entries, and tagged
@@ -25,7 +51,20 @@ with the target distribution (sid/lenny/etc.). Then compiling
 ikiwiki would generate the needed Packages/Release files
 automatically.
 
-Just some thoughts I had, hope it's not too crazy.<br>
---Cameron
+> I like the idea of
+> using packages as "source" and spitting out apt repos, though I'd not
+> 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.
+
+>> 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]]
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+[[!tag wishlist]]