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Chad wrote:
>
> 3)The final suggestion I have is for the creation of an App called
something
> like drakecooker or cookerdrake. This would be a program for helping with
> cooker testing. A gui or commandline interface which could control
updateing
> the cooker installation. Allowing users to choose when and what parts of
> cooker they wanted to update and set up cron jobs to do it.


I don't think this is *really* necessary:
[bgmilne:/home/bgmilne/rpm/BUILD]# cat /etc/cron.daily/update
#!/bin/sh

LOG=/var/log/updates

rm -f /var/cache/urpmi/rpms/*.rpm
unset ftp_proxy
unset http_proxy
echo "Running updates on `date`" > $LOG
urpmi.update --wget  ftp1 ftp2 >> /var/log/updates 2>&1
#urpmi --wget --auto-select --auto --no-verify-rpm >> /var/log/updates
urpmi --wget --auto-select --auto >>  /var/log/updates 2>&1

ls /var/cache/urpmi/rpms/*.rpm >/dev/null
[ $? -eq 0 ] && rpm -Uvh /var/cache/urpmi/rpms/*.rpm >> /var/log/updates
2>&1


> -It would report/list what packages had been updated after runing the
update
> cooker command and list the changes made to them (scan the changelog
in the
> spec file).

Subscibe to the changelog list for this, you get the changelog *before*
upgrading, so you can avoid packages (via skip.list) if necessary.

> - List requests for moreinfo on bugs and specific requests for testing
of new
> or updated packages.

Read the changelogs. (see above).

> It would be closely tied to bugdrake allowing easy bug reporting etc.
> -report bugs in areas of interest.

drakbug is for people who don't subscribe to cooker. cookers are
expected to be able to give better diagnostics than drakbug (ie
intelligent bug reports as opposed to automated ones).

> So you could tell it you wanted to mainly
> test Multimedia pacakges it would then list new, needinfo and
unresolved bugs
> from the mulitmedia packages section that you could have a look at,
test etc.
> - and have a package/cvs upload front end for uploading changes or
patches.
>

If you are subscribe to cooker, you can easily filter/search bug reports
in your mail client.

I think a 'build-from-source' tool would be more important to cookers.

Buchan

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