[Piuparts-devel] piuparts.conf

[Holger Levsen]

Hi Andreas,

On Sonntag, 27. November 2011, Andreas Beckmann wrote:
> here are some of my thoughts about piuparts.conf.
> If you have more than one section, there is a lot of redundant
> information in there that is prone to errors when copy-pasting.

yeah :(
 
> I suggest to move "master-command" to [global] (excluding the section
> argument) and have the slave generate the final command by appending the
> current section.

sounds good.

> I suggest to split "piuparts-command", move "piuparts-command" to
> [global], allowing to add global settings (e.g. tempdir) there and use
> "piuparts-arguments" for the section specific arguments.

sounds good.
 
> mirror, packages-url, sources-url are highly redundant. All the urls can
> be generated from (mirror, distro, area="main", arch="native") without
> need to parse packages-url into pieces. Is there any use for *not*
> having a sources-url? Any repository that has only packages, but no
> sources information?

Frankly, I wouldn't care about such repos.
 
> README.txt about [global]/sections:
>   The first section defined should always be sid, because the data from
>   first section a package is in is used for the source package html
>   report.
> Is this still correct?

Dunno.

> piuparts-slave should reload the section config every time the section
> is run to allow for changes without restarting the slave. (patch
> availabe and working)

Which is it? :-)


cheers,
	Holger