Hotstuff 0.9 review

License: GPL (GNU General Public License) File size: 60K Developer: Josef Spillner

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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 database
2) Setup scripts and configuration
3) Optional steps

Step 1: Prepare the database

- only PostgreSQL is supported right now
- create a user and a database
- use hoststuff.sql and hotstuffadmin.sql to initialise tables

Step 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.pl

Step 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?)