[chef] Re: sourcing ingredients from your local store for use within your recipes

[Chris McClimans < >]

This pattern of enumerating through and downloading versions of
software has been solved before in debian.

* http://wiki.debian.org/debian/watch/
* http://manpages.debian.net/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=uscan
* 
http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=pkg-virtualbox/virtualbox-ose.git;a=blob_plain;f=debian/watch;hb=HEAD

Which results in automated monitoring of new releases of upstream
software, which is used to notify and eventually build debian packages
around them.

If we could do something similar with easybake ingredients and put it
into a continuous delivery pipeline, we could have tested/vetted
combinations of ingredients.

ingredients.easybake.cd

Looks like uscan is written in perl:

http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=devscripts/devscripts.git;a=blob;f=scripts/uscan.pl;h=8723fb45dfd25df36ebc2aa06fd045df8ee75416;hb=HEAD

My next target is Virtualbox, which has a debian/watch file in the
debian sources and I'm digging the automated approach they took to
checking for new upstream releases.