I created an ebuild for rss2email[1], a simple python script that lets you receive RSS newsfeeds as email. I think this ebuild belongs in net-mail [1] http://www.aaronsw.com/2002/rss2email/ Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3. please see attach that follow for the actual ebuild + files.
Created attachment 67852 [details] rss2email-2.55.ebuild The main ebuild. It depends on feedparser (bug #69803) and installs in /usr/share/rss2email
Created attachment 67854 [details] preliminary metadata.xml a metadata file which could be used as template
Created attachment 67855 [details, diff] rss2email-2.55-gentoo.patch A patch applied to the 'sources'. For the sources see comment below. This patch extends the start script r2e to basically allow root to install the package and each user to use it. Also, it facilitates in creating the config directory for the user and populating it with a default config file. (see next attachment)
Created attachment 67856 [details] rss2email-2.55-config.py a config file extracted from the 'sources'
upstream does not supply a source distribution, but requires to download a few unversioned files separately, hence I created a source tarbal. The tarbal I used can be found here: http://www.gentoo.org/~grobian/rss2email-2.55.tar.bz2
Created attachment 67866 [details] rss2email-2.55.ebuild improved edition small change to get config.py working
Created attachment 67867 [details] rss2email-2.55-config.py improved edition made the config.py by default work (ahem) and made documentation a bit less weird sounding
Created attachment 67868 [details, diff] rss2email-2.55-gentoo.patch improved edition copy over the sample file
Please fix the following and reopen: * http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm/docs/mw-faq/toolong.txt * SRC_URI needs a real location.
Created attachment 68285 [details, diff] rss2email-2.55.ebuild patch (20050912 2217) - Author says sources are GPL-2 - Shortened the DESCRIPTION field
Thanks for the FAQ, quite useful. I tried to persuade the author to create a versioned tarball somehow with the sources, sofar he refuses to do so, hence I created a tarball myself that I think should be manually uploaded to the gentoo mirrors. I gave the link to that tarball in reply #5. Please say so if I'm doing something (obvious) wrong here.
Okay, if upstream wants to really really piss us off I guess that that's their prerogative. Could you please attach a full ebuild rather than a patch? Once you've done that I'll tag this as reviewed.
Created attachment 68381 [details] rss2email-2.55.ebuild (20050912 2217) Sorry for the delay. I had hoped for an answer from the author in a final attempt to get a tarball, but unfortunately no. So here is the last full file version of the ebuild.
As today, the version available on http://rss2email.infogami.com/download is 2.63. Would be nice to have a new tarball with the updated version and a new gentoo.patch.
Created attachment 199220 [details, diff] 67868: rss2email-2.55-gentoo.patch final improved edition this patch adds an X-rss-feed header such that procmail (or similar) can sort mail into separate boxes, as I tend to do for the RSS feeds I "read".
+*rss2email-2.65 (26 Jul 2009) + + 26 Jul 2009; Robert Buchholz <rbu@gentoo.org> + +files/rss2email-2.65-X-rss-feed.patch, + +files/rss2email-2.65-r2e-chmod.patch, +metadata.xml, + +rss2email-2.65.ebuild: + rss2email, new package. Thanks to the work of Fabian Groffen (grobian) in + bug 105175 as well as Joey Hess and David Watson of Debian. + Also added a patch to include the feed url in the header. +
