Hotstuff Hotstuff is a set of Perl scripts to automatically handle repositories for the creative data sharing functionality.
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Hotstuff is a set of Perl scripts to automatically handle repositories for the creative data sharing functionality. Hotstuff is a set of Perl scripts to automatically handle repositories for the "Get Hot New Stuff" creative data sharing functionality present in KDE and several applications.It handles both the traditional format and the new GHNS format as developed by the corresponding freedesktop.org project, and requires an SQL database to work.Hotstuff project also includes a (simple) Web frontend for database maintenance.Installation:1) Prepare the database2) Setup scripts and configuration3) Optional stepsStep 1: Prepare the database- only PostgreSQL is supported right now- create a user and a database- use hoststuff.sql and hotstuffadmin.sql to initialise tablesStep 2: Setup scripts and configuration- copy hotstuff-conf.dist to /etc/hotstuff.conf- enter database access data and other values- copy the script hotstuff-scan.pl to some bindir- add crontab entry for hotstuff-scan.plStep 3: Optional steps- auto-generated providers.xml/stuff.xml files (documentation?)- web interface (documentation?)- admin web interface (documentation?)- webservice gate - SOAP uploads/downloads (documentation?)- protocol gate - HTTP/FTP uploads/downloads (documentation?)What's New in This Release:· XML description files for data providers are now generated on the fly based on configuration settings.· Uploaded meta files can now be checked for schema compliance.· Translated entries are handled correctly.· The Debian packaging files were updated.

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