[Mageia-sysadm] http://pkgsubmit.mageia.org/ as simple, parsable text?

[nicolas vigier]

On Mon, 17 Sep 2012, Jerome Quelin wrote:

> hi,
> 
> in order to create new rpms for perl modules, i'm using cpan2pkg which
> makes sure requires are already available in mageia. to do that, it
> builds the missing packages and waits for them to be available on the bs
> before submitting the new package.
> 
> in order to achieve this result, i'm checking pkgsubmit.mageia.org and
> parses the html to know the build status of a given package. yes, this
> is fragile: it has already been broken more than once, and is broken
> once again with the new interface (shiny btw! :-))
> 
> so, would it be possible to have a real simple text listing with the
> builds and their status:
> 
>      perl-LaTeX-Encode-0.60.0-1.mga3:jquelin:36 seconds ago:cauldron:core/release:todo 
> 
> or even simpler:
> 
>     perl-LaTeX-Encode-0.60.0-1.mga3:todo
> 
> for failures, include the url to the details:
> 
>     perl-LaTeX-Encode-0.60.0-1.mga3:failure(http://pkgsubmit.mageia.org/uploads/failure/cauldron/core/release/20120917084130.jquelin.valstar.13308/)

Or in yaml/json, to allow adding more infos later ?