repo.roscidus.com

http://repo.roscidus.com/ provides Zero Install feeds for programs and libraries where the upstream authors do not provide feeds of their own. It also serves as a semi-official repository for basic infrastructure components such as libraries and runtime environments. Some packages are created by hand, others are generated automatically from Debian packages. It is kindly hosted by the FSF, and hosts only Free software.

This Git repository tracks changes to these feeds. The feeds are updated using the following tools:

0watch scrapes upstream websites to discover new versions of applications. It runs a watch file (e.g., ffmpeg.watch.py) and then automatically calls 0template as needed.

0template is used to add new releases of applications. It takes a template (e.g., ffmpeg.xml.template) and values for placeholders (e.g., a version number) as input and generates a new feed (e.g., ffmpeg-2.0.0.xml) as output.

0repo merges feeds generated by 0template (e.g., ffmpeg-2.0.0.xml) into the appropriate main (e.g., ffmpeg.xml).

We run this process periodically in a CI environment. You can also try it out on your own machine:

• git clone https://github.com/0install/repo.roscidus.com.git feeds
  Note: The target directory must be called feeds.
• ./watch.sh for Linux or .\watch.ps1 for Windows
  Note: These two scripts/platforms update two different subsets of the feeds. To update everything you need to run both.