[csw-maintainers] checkpkg: Detecting file conflicts (wrt the recent ev.h conflict)

[Peter Bonivart]

On Sat, Apr 10, 2010 at 2:57 PM, Ben Walton <bwalton at opencsw.org> wrote:
> We have this info in the central database, as it's consumed by the
> /search/ URL on the website.  If we made periodic (weekly?) dumps of
> this data available for download/caching[1] by checkpkg, you could
> achieve what's required, no?  It would be a public[1] URL, so it
> wouldn't be tied to the buildfarm...

I also think this is the most reasonable approach. Add an option to
checkpkg to point it to the "contents" file. No complex
fetching/db-access code in checkpkg. Dump the file from the db with
simple scripts run from cron instead.

-- 
/peter