[gentoo-dev] Request for Help

[Spider]

hello folks.....

I'm a tad of a bit irritated right now. the Gnome team has changed the
ftp layout completely, and Now every download for a gnome package will
fail from gnome or their updated mirrors. 

the update work is harsh since the system is harder to script than
before.

in this example I'll use "gdm" which is currently at  version 
2.4.0.11 

for example, we now have to link:
ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/2.0.x/sources/gdm/gdm-2.4.0.11.tar.bz2
ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/2.0.x/sources/${PN}/${P}.tar.bz2

Where we now will have to refer to :
ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/gdm/2.4/gdm-2.4.0.11.tar.bz2

to make this simple across updates is impossible due to the "2.4" which
will have to either add extra logic to the ebuild, or be manually set
between major versions.

well, this will be "simple" .. its only the question of a couple of
man-hours to manually go through all our gnome packages and changing
SRC_URI ...   happy happy fscking JOY! 

Example:
gdm-2.4.0.11 :
mirror://gnome/sources/${PN}/2.4/${P}.tar.bz2 

Now.. .for my main source of irritation and something I'd require help
with. in this update, they also saw fit to remove the /latest directory,
which previously had a nice "sort by date" in the http interface, and
thus was really simple to keep abreast with added and changed packages
between our tree and theirs..  Now this is the question of listing all
packages one by one for each "major" version and checking against our
supported versions.  as you can imagine this is nothing I look forward
to doing.

So, I request the help of the creative scripters in the -dev list to
come up with a way to track changes in a ftp tree between two days, and
listing the new packages between dates.

ls */*/*.tar* >$DATE ; diff $DATE(TODAY) $DATE(TODAY-1) : 
or something ;)    


regards, 
  Spider
      irate developer


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