Bug 6056

Summary:	Gentoo Package List doesn't get updated
Product:	Gentoo Infrastructure	Reporter:	John Herdy <johnherdy>
Component:	[OLD] gpackages	Assignee:	Colin Morey (RETIRED) <peitolm>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal	CC:	rajiv
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Bug Depends on:
Bug Blocks:	3723, 6415

Description John Herdy 2002-08-05 14:43:26 UTC

Going to the changelog I see every day new packages being added to the 
Portage-tree. However the total number of packages available on 
http://www.gentoo.org/index-packages.html is for a long time 2317. The today's 
list of Gentoo Packages on http://www.gentoo.org/index-packages-old.html is for 
a long time 2168. The update-mechanism isn't working anymore. 
 
Regards, 
John Herdy. 
 
BTW: why are these numbers different (2317 and 2168)?

Comment 1 Colin Morey (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2002-09-06 03:11:17 UTC

the package list is actually based on the packages the server knows about at the
time of the website re-build, this may and often does lag behind the actually
number, and is purely ment as a guide, as for why they're different, I'll look
into it, the two pages are from two seperate scripts so it may be easier for me
to integrate them into one.

Cheers.

P

Comment 2 Rajiv Aaron Manglani (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2002-12-03 14:32:56 UTC

the package list is now at http://www.gentoo.org/dyn/pkgs/index.xml ... a cron
job needs to be added on www.gentoo.org to run gentoo-xml/scripts/pkgs.py every day.

Comment 3 Rajiv Aaron Manglani (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2002-12-05 13:00:45 UTC

cron job has been added. the package list now updates once a day.