[Mageia-dev] Automatically determining all "GNOME" packages

Thu Feb 9 09:32:30 CET 2012

For GNOME QA purposes, I'd like to list all Mageia packages which come
+from *.gnome.org (download.gnome.org or ftp.gnome.org).
+
+In the spec file, the Source: usually has an URL. IMO the most reliable
+option is checking the Source: URL.
+I thought of matching http://git.gnome.org/repositories.txt or
+http://download.gnome.org/sources to the Mageia package name; but I
+already know that there are differences.
+I also looked into "urpmq", but I don't see any way to determine the
+Source URL.
+
+
+So: anyone know of a good way to query the Source: URL from all the spec
+files?
+
+
+
+Requirement: I don't want to overload the Mageia infrastructure! (e.g. I
+could checkout the entire http://svnweb.mageia.org/packages/cauldron/,
+but that is a bit madness)
+
+What I want to do with this:
+- determines all GNOME packages
+- determines all patches for these packages
+  so I can either commit the patch upstream, or file a bug for a review
+- be notified when there is a new one patch or package (so I can check
+  the spec file)
+- have the script perform basic spec file checking
+- perhaps automatically prepare the minor GNOME version upgrades
+  (meaning: script the "new version" releases for Cauldron)
+
+PS:
+- there are some things on ftp.gnome.org which are not in git.gnome.org,
+  but that's pretty limited.
+
+-- 
+Regards,
+Olav
+