libept-based Popcon-access

[Benjamin Mesing]

[switching to debtags-devel, since this might be of genral interest]

You've mentioned your plans to get rid of libept before, though I am not
very fond of it, now that I have everything running on libept (which
seems very well structured to me). It's certainly much easier to use
than libapt-pkg.
Can you give me a pointer to applications using xapian for debtags
without libept (is "debtags" already ported)? Are there any porting
hints available?

Best regards

Ben

On Sun, 2010-02-28 at 22:32 +0000, Enrico Zini wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 28, 2010 at 09:48:48PM +0100, Benjamin Mesing wrote:
> 
> > I started setting up libept-based popcon access today. I think, I have
> > done it now, but how do I create the index (currently Popcon.hasData()
> > always returns false)? I don't have to download the popcon-file by hand,
> > do I?
> 
> Currently, that is the case. See the README.Debian of goplay for an
> example.
> 
> Ideally, two things should happen:
> 
>  1. A tool to periodically download popcon information should be
>     written. This is easy in theory (a cron and a wget), harder is to
>     make it not cause trouble, and to work in offline system (the
>     package should ship a base popcon file). Ideally one would like
>     something that runs at apt-get update time; I tried to start
>     something with Michael Vogt, but he's always too busy.
> 
>  2. The data should be indexed by apt-xapian-index, and accessed either
>     by loading the raw downloaded data file or through the index.
>     I would like libept to disappear, see #540218.
> 
> Ciao,
> 
> Enrico
>