From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Chong Yidong Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Packages + elpa.gnu.org Date: Sun, 10 Oct 2010 01:05:29 -0400 Message-ID: <87hbgu63ja.fsf@stupidchicken.com> References: <81eic0wsre.fsf@gmail.com> <87y6a86muv.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <871v7yljzr.fsf@lifelogs.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1286687144 23368 80.91.229.12 (10 Oct 2010 05:05:44 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 10 Oct 2010 05:05:44 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Ted Zlatanov Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Oct 10 07:05:43 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1P4o6Q-0002oc-Sp for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 10 Oct 2010 07:05:43 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:45522 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1P4o6Q-0002hm-5A for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 10 Oct 2010 01:05:42 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=37446 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1P4o6J-0002hP-HG for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 10 Oct 2010 01:05:36 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1P4o6I-0005BY-5n for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 10 Oct 2010 01:05:35 -0400 Original-Received: from pantheon-po26.its.yale.edu ([130.132.50.121]:52229) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1P4o6I-0005BQ-1o for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 10 Oct 2010 01:05:34 -0400 Original-Received: from furry (adsl-99-111-197-225.dsl.wlfrct.sbcglobal.net [99.111.197.225]) (authenticated bits=0) by pantheon-po26.its.yale.edu (8.12.11.20060308/8.12.11) with ESMTP id o9A55UvF003247 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT); Sun, 10 Oct 2010 01:05:31 -0400 Original-Received: by furry (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 13417C018; Sun, 10 Oct 2010 01:05:29 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <871v7yljzr.fsf@lifelogs.com> (Ted Zlatanov's message of "Sun, 10 Oct 2010 00:00:56 -0500") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-YaleITSMailFilter: Version 1.2c (attachment(s) not renamed) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.4-2.6 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:131553 Archived-At: Ted Zlatanov writes: > CY> Probably the easiest way to set this up is for someone on the org-mode > CY> team to upload the dailies to a server somewhere on the web, giving the > CY> tarball a deterministic name. Then, someone (probably me) will have to > CY> set up a cron job on elpa.gnu.org to check for that tarball each day, > CY> download it, and run `package-upload-file' to add it to the repository. > > I suggested using a Bazaar repo for this. It doesn't have to be as > elaborate as Ubuntu's setup but it could at least help us track uploads > and history. Chong, did you want to go with that proposal? If you're willing to help implement it, sure. As I said to you before, the main advantage of the existing package uploading system is that it exists.