Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (599 mails)

[Pascal Bleser <pascal.bleser@xxxxxxxxx>]

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Pascal Bleser wrote:
> houghi wrote:
>>> On Sun, Aug 06, 2006 at 11:15:31PM +0200, Hans-Peter Jansen wrote:
>>>> Sure, yast could do that by itself, and even on every start, but that 
>>>> would reduce user experience drastically for some setups (My local repo 
>>>> has about 500 packages..)
>>> I notice this more and more that apparently a solution must be workable
>>> always in any situation. I believe that hinders development more then it
>>> helps as it, bcause most likely there will always be an exeption.
>>>
>>> Yes, some thought needs to go into things. However due to the openness op
>>> /usr/src/packages/RPMS I do not think it is a good idea anymore.
>>>
>>>> Maybe a daemon, based on inotify, that triggers the rebuild everytime 
>>>> the repo changes, would be a smart solution to this problem..
>>> If I would have the knowledge on how to write such a deamon, I would.
>>> Unfortunatly I am unable to do so. :-(
> 
> Actually that should be quite easy to do with a shell script, using
> inotify-tools [1] [2]:
> ---8<------------------------------------------------------------
> #!/bin/sh
> RPMDIRS=/usr/src/packages/RPMS/*
> REPODIR=/usr/src/packages/RPMS
> CACHEDIR=/usr/src/packages/RPMS/.cache
> 
> inotifywait -m -eclose $RPMDIRS | while read event; do
> 	createrepo -q --cachedir="$CACHEDIR" "$REPODIR" >/dev/null
> done
> ---8<------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> Would just need to make it somewhat smarter and only run createrepo if
> there hasn't been any write after a given amount of seconds (or
> minutes), because if rpmbuild creates several RPMS, it will trigger
> createrepo immediately although rpmbuild isn't finished with writing all
> of them.
> 
> [1] http://inotify-tools.sourceforge.net/
> [2] SUSE RPMs available in my repo:
> http://linux01.gwdg.de/~pbleser/rpm-navigation.php?cat=System/inotify-tools
> (2.2 is built and underway)

Or using this Python module:
http://pyinotify.sourceforge.net/

RPM will be here in a few hours:
http://linux01.gwdg.de/~pbleser/rpm-navigation.php?cat=Libraries/python-pyinotify

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