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Frequently Asked Questions about Meatoo

  • Q: I love to file bug reports. Can I start filling up bugs.gentoo.org with version bump bugs?

    A: Please don't. A Gentoo developer may already be testing a package just released. If its been a reasonable amount of time, feel free to open a bug report requesting a new version.


  • Q: Package "foo" on Gentoo isn't the same software as package "foo" on Freshmeat, why isn't it mapped to the correct name?

    A: Meatoo maps Gentoo portage package names against Freshmeat package names automatically. If you find an incorrect match, click the edit icon to re-map the proper category/packagename to the Freshmeat name.

  • Q: Can I get package release info via mail?

    A:Not until the server code is a bit more mature and tested. There is an RSS feed available for daily updates for all packages:

    http://meatoo.gentooexperimental.org/static/meatoo.xml

    Or by herd or maintainer email address:

    http://meatoo.gentooexperimental.org/rss/games
    http://meatoo.gentooexperimental.org/rss/whoever@gentoo.org

    Note: Freshmeat only updates their RDF database every 12 hours (12am and 12pm UTC), so there is no need to set your client to read them at an interval much lower.

    There is also a command-line client available in portage as app-portage/meatoo


    Miscellaneous:

    Join #meatoo on Freenode and talk to pythonhead and rl03 if you have ideas or meatoo problems.

    The meatoo database is populated with a Python script via cron once a day using celementtree to parse the ~100 meg Freshmeat RDF file and sqlobject to fill up a mysql database. The Meatoo website uses CherryPy and Cheetah.



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