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=== Thursday 28th September 2006 ===

==== Local Packages ====

Nothing needed updating today so did some infrastructure changes that I'd been planning for a while.
I now build the repo (metadata and repoview) offline on my build system and use `rsync` to mirror it
to the webserver. Whilst this may seem the obvious way to do it, the repo had evolved in such a way
that the metadata was being created on the webserver directly.

This is a big improvment performance-wise, as the build system is ''much'' faster than the webserver.
It also means that I am able to run a dependency closure check on the repository ''before'' it goes live,
and hence pick up problems before they affect anyone.

I also tweaked my `mock` configuration on the build system to include `Vendor:` and `Packager:` tags in the built packages,
by adding the following to `/etc/mock/defaults.cfg`:
{{{
config_opts['macros'] = """
%%_topdir %s/build
%%_rpmfilename   %%%%{NAME}-%%%%{VERSION}-%%%%{RELEASE}.%%%%{ARCH}.rpm
%%packager       Paul Howarth <paul@city-fan.org>
%%vendor         city-fan.org repo http://www.city-fan.org/ftp/contrib/
"""  % config_opts['chroothome']}}}

I had to rebuild the `mock` root caches for each target before it took effect though.

I tested the changes by bringing my oldest perl package (`perl-Convert-TNEF`)
up to my current packaging style and pushing a new release of it.

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