[arch-general] arch-general Digest, Vol 69, Issue 37

[Netanel Shine]

>
> Date: Sun, 18 Jul 2010 21:36:42 -0500
> From: Dan McGee <dpmcgee at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [arch-general] RSS feed - missing feature|problem
> On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 3:59 AM, Netanel Shine <netanelshine at 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

First of all, I sorry for seeing this message just now.
Thanks Dan, I appreciate your comment, and i would like to have the script
you're talking about , please send him to: netanelshine at gmail dot com ;)
-- 
Netanel Shine