From: Ian Jackson <ijackson@chiark.greenend.org.uk>
Date: Thu, 23 Apr 2015 12:18:18 +0000 (+0100)
Subject: dgit-repos-server: Document forthcoming --cron option
X-Git-Tag: debian/0.30~219
X-Git-Url: http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/ucgi/~ianmdlvl/git?p=dgit.git;a=commitdiff_plain;h=c5ecd001b6b7bd34cfdb161882fa20519df7fbde

dgit-repos-server: Document forthcoming --cron option
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diff --git a/infra/dgit-repos-server b/infra/dgit-repos-server
index 9d6edb8f..baaf9919 100755
--- a/infra/dgit-repos-server
+++ b/infra/dgit-repos-server
@@ -4,6 +4,8 @@
 # usages:
 #  .../dgit-repos-server DISTRO SUITES KEYRING-AUTH-SPEC \
 #      DGIT-REPOS-DIR POLICY-HOOK-SCRIPT --ssh
+#  .../dgit-repos-server DISTRO SUITES KEYRING-AUTH-SPEC \
+#      DGIT-REPOS-DIR POLICY-HOOK-SCRIPT --cron
 # internal usage:
 #  .../dgit-repos-server --pre-receive-hook PACKAGE
 #
@@ -135,6 +137,11 @@ use strict;
 #
 # policy hook for a particular package will be invoked only once at
 # a time - (see comments about DGIT-REPOS-DIR, above)
+#
+# check-list and check-package are invoked via the --cron option.
+# First, without any locking, check-list is called.  It should produce
+# a list of package names.  Then check-package will be invoked for
+# each named package, in each case after taking an appropriate lock.
 
 
 use POSIX;