Re: to-do: formalize/automate tracking of files maintained elsewhere

[OndÅej BÃlka <neleai at seznam dot cz>]

On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 01:25:41PM -0700, Roland McGrath wrote:
> I recently updated manual/freemanuals.texi to match the canonical GNU file.
> This reminded me that we have various files of that nature, i.e. copied
> into our repository from some other canonical GNU place, and no scheme for
> making sure they stay up to date.  The starting place of course is to list
> them all somewhere, and say something about the subject on the wiki.
> 
> We should endeavor to keep all these files up to date on the trunk.  We
> could automate some reminder email.  We could make it part of the release
> manager's procedure to check and update all these files on the trunk
> shortly before calling the release freeze.  etc.
> 
> Karl Berry pointed me to gnulib's script:
> 	http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/gnulib.git/tree/config/
> But that doesn't look like it would really be useful for us.
> 
> Incomplete list of such files off the top of my head:
> 
> COPYING
> COPYING.LIB
> manual/fdl-1.3.texi
> manual/freemanuals.texi
> manual/lgpl-2.1.texi
> manual/texinfo.tex
> scripts/config.guess
> scripts/config.sub
> scripts/mkinstalldirs
> scripts/move-if-change
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> Roland

When we automate we should do it fully. To automatically keep these
updated we need use a script that downloads new versions.

This could be ran before release or as cron job every week or so.


diff --git a/scripts/update-copied b/scripts/update-copied
new file mode 100755
index 0000000..3abc276
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/update-copied
@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+wget http://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/gpl-2.0.txt -O COPYING
+wget http://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/lgpl-2.1.txt -O COPYING.LIB
+wget http://www.gnu.org/licenses/fdl-1.3.texi -O manual/fdl-1.3.texi
+wget http://www.gnu.org/licenses/lgpl-2.1.texi -O manual/lgpl-2.1.texi
+
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