Hi Lucas,
Please review the attached patch, I think it meets the requirements.
About the configuration file format, I considered a whitespace separated
list to be practical.
In regard to the usage, maybe we can document the following command as a
way to monitor all packages from a server.
ssh myserver dpkg -l | tail -n+5 | awk '{ print $2 }' >>
~/.config/how-can-i-help/packages
> Alternatively, we could just display new opportunities when running as
> user, and display them again the next time we are running as root.
> That's a bit simpler. What do you think?
Yes that is better. And it makes perfect sense to display the
information once per user.
Christophe
diff --git a/bin/how-can-i-help b/bin/how-can-i-help
index 7e34119..dcbbcff 100755
--- a/bin/how-can-i-help
+++ b/bin/how-can-i-help
@@ -27,6 +27,7 @@ require 'optparse'
HELPITEMS_URL = 'http://udd.debian.org/how-can-i-help.json.gz'
DATADIR = '/var/lib/how-can-i-help'
SEEN_LOCAL = "#{DATADIR}/seen.json"
+PACKAGES = "#{Dir.home}/.config/how-can-i-help/packages"
include Debian
@@ -95,6 +96,12 @@ str.split(/\n/).each do |l|
end
end
+# add user defined packages
+if File.file?(PACKAGES)
+ additionals = File.read(PACKAGES).gsub(/\s+/m, ' ').strip.split(" ")
+ packages += additionals
+end
+
helpitems_filtered = []
helpitems.each do |hi|
next if (not $all) and seen.include?(hi['hash'])
diff --git a/how-can-i-help.1 b/how-can-i-help.1
index 775ab31..a116b69 100644
--- a/how-can-i-help.1
+++ b/how-can-i-help.1
@@ -1,13 +1,13 @@
'\" t
.\" Title: how-can-i-help
.\" Author: [see the "AUTHOR" section]
-.\" Generator: DocBook XSL Stylesheets v1.78.1 <http://docbook.sf.net/>
-.\" Date: 09/12/2013
+.\" Generator: DocBook XSL Stylesheets v1.76.1 <http://docbook.sf.net/>
+.\" Date: 09/20/2013
.\" Manual: \ \&
.\" Source: \ \&
.\" Language: English
.\"
-.TH "HOW\-CAN\-I\-HELP" "1" "09/12/2013" "\ \&" "\ \&"
+.TH "HOW\-CAN\-I\-HELP" "1" "09/20/2013" "\ \&" "\ \&"
.\" -----------------------------------------------------------------
.\" * Define some portability stuff
.\" -----------------------------------------------------------------
@@ -53,6 +53,9 @@ Show all opportunities for contribution\&. *
.RS 4
Do not display header and footer\&.
.RE
+.SH "ADDITIONAL PACKAGES"
+.sp
+how\-can\-i\-help can also monitor packages not installed locally\&. These are listed in ~/\&.config/how\-can\-i\-help/packages separated by whitespaces or newlines\&.
.SH "SEE ALSO"
.sp
https://wiki\&.debian\&.org/how\-can\-i\-help
diff --git a/how-can-i-help.1.txt b/how-can-i-help.1.txt
index db175f2..fffdf63 100644
--- a/how-can-i-help.1.txt
+++ b/how-can-i-help.1.txt
@@ -30,6 +30,12 @@ Options must come before the other command line arguments.
*-q*, *--quiet*::
Do not display header and footer.
+ADDITIONAL PACKAGES
+-------------------
+how-can-i-help can also monitor packages not installed locally. These are
+listed in ~/.config/how-can-i-help/packages separated by whitespaces or
+newlines.
+
SEE ALSO
--------
https://wiki.debian.org/how-can-i-help
