Hello,
On 16/10/13 17:27, Peter Pentchev wrote: > On Wed, Oct 16, 2013 at 02:44:50PM +0200, Patrick Matthäi wrote: >> Hi, >> >> for the geoip-database package I would like to add a watch file. The >> problem is: there are no real releases, so I am manualy monitoring >> the required files. >> >> Is it possible to get the upstream version of the remote file based >> on it's modified tag? e.g.: >> http://geolite.maxmind.com/download/geoip/database/GeoIPCountryCSV.zip >> >> The required format is: YYYYMMDD > > I don't think it's possible to do it using just uscan. > > What would be possible is for you - or somebody else - to write some > kind of a redirector and host it somewhere; the redirector would fetch > upstream's webpage and return an HTML page containing a "link" to a > file with the timestamp in the name. It is possible that the same > redirector would have to implement the other part of the functionality - > upon a request for the file with the timestamp in the name, it would > fetch the real file from upstream and serve it as, well, the file with > the timestamp in the name. It might be prudent to also implement some > kind of local caching to prevent resource exhaustion DoS problems on too > many almost-simultaneous requests. > > It doesn't sound too hard; if nobody else steps up, I may try to write > something like this. An other possibility is to write to the upstream maintainer to ask for a versioned source tarball from his/her side. hth, Jerome > > G'luck, > Peter > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
