On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 3:59 AM, Netanel Shine <netanelshine@gmail.com> wrote:

Hey all,

My name is Netanel Shine, and a few days ago i began the process of building an israeli community of archlinux. I used a git clone to set up the main site. (like some other great projects file that archlinux git have to offer like the wiki and the forums) Everything went smoothly and just works great, except for one problem - the package rss feeds.

The site address is: http://archlinux.org.il - under heavy development.

The problem: As you all can see, the left rss box with the latest updates dont work and the list is empty. - because the system comes with an integrated "packages" part (you can see it here: http://archlinux.org.il/packages - not gonna use it), so the rss list updates from here (i guess)

After discussions with some great people (in the irc) we concluded that the rss box pull`s the data from the 'models.Package' object - that connected to archlinux mainsite DB (Package.objects=PackageManager()), so if i dont have any access for the database - thats not gonna work.

All sorts of ideas were came up like bulding a script that will do the job or, a an iframe that will copy the box from the mainsite (but the problem it will not be in hebrew) and an idea to replace the table that has for update in pkg_updates. (with logic that pulls from the feed) - but thats not easy because the logic is a wrapped up in django MVC.

So dear friends, i turn to you for help - and I`m sure I would find it.

Check out the reporead command baked into manage.py- you can very easily populate the package DB yourself. I have a small script I can send you for this, but I don't have it handy at the moment. Let me know if that would be useful to you. -Dan