On Mon, Apr 06, 2009 at 02:28:12PM +0100, David Cantrell wrote: > On Sun, Apr 05, 2009 at 12:07:03AM -0400, David Golden wrote: > > > My thought: get a full list of all tarballs on backpan create a > > mapping table -- hopefully, there are few cases of duplicate > > distname-version. > > In fact I don't believe there are any.
There are at least a couple. In the past they have been "hidden" as the pauseid associated as maintainer has taken precedence, but it has happened. Unfortunately I can't remember which distros it affected. > > Q1: does that exist or could it be produced easily? > > Q2: any thoughts on how that could be either kept up to date or > > web-queryable for ongoing mapping of "version 1" reports as they are > > produced? > > Importing the metadata for the current backpan is time-consuming but > simple. Keeping it up to date is simply a case of running the same > script over the backpan every $time_period and ignoring anything that's > already in the database. Did my mail about this miss the list? I maintain the uploads database, which contains the mapping, including the current state of 'backpan' (only on BACKPAN), 'cpan' (available publicly via CPAN mirrors), or 'upload' (uploaded to PAUSE, but not currently mirrored). See http://devel.cpantesters.org for details. Cheers, Barbie. -- 2009 QA Hackathon <http://qa-hackathon.org> Birmingham Perl Mongers <http://birmingham.pm.org> Memoirs Of A Roadie <http://barbie.missbarbell.co.uk>
