Debian Repository Watcher

Pybit-watcher provides a watcher daemon to monitor a nominated directory for for Debian package uploads (*.changes), then runs the appropriate incoming rule on the configured reprepro repository. This allows pybit clients to upload without waiting for the packages to be processed by the archive.

The watcher does depend on python. Also, the JSON configuration file needs to be configured before it will process uploads.

To configure the watcher you need to perform several tasks, remove the configured key at the top of the config file and set dry-run to false.

Each directory which the watcher will monitor becomes a section in the config file. The absolute path to the directory where uploads will be deposited is specified as a key in the rules section. (This changed in 0.5.0, the old rule value has been dropped.)

{
	"rules": {
	"/absolute/path/repo/incoming" : {
		"repobase": "/absolute/path/repo",
		"rule" : "incoming_rule"
            }
        },
}

repobase is the absolute path to the repository.

rule specifies the reprepro rule that will be run by the watcher when it detects a changes file.

The amount of time to wait after detecting a changes file and before running the rule, this is a cludge to fix races because certain upload utilitys (dput) upload then mess with the uploaded files.

{"sleeptime": 3}

To run the reprepro command as a particular user append a key containing the user to the config file:

{ "user": "buildd"  }