From c5fc581b3e2d6ca00e21aa5d17d8f2b053de6b39 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "Eric S. Raymond" <esr@thyrsus.com>
Date: Fri, 15 Oct 2010 05:01:48 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] Update core data first, so early failure is less likely to do
 a junk list.

---
 freshmeat-submit     | 8 ++++----
 freshmeat-submit.xml | 5 ++++-
 2 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/freshmeat-submit b/freshmeat-submit
index a41066f..1f9b31f 100755
--- a/freshmeat-submit
+++ b/freshmeat-submit
@@ -327,15 +327,15 @@ if __name__ == "__main__":
         session = FreshmeatSession(verbose=int(verbose), emit_enable=not dryrun)
         session.on_project(update.name)
         # OK, now actually add or delete the release.
+        if update.per_project:
+            session.update_core(update.per_project)
+        if update.urlassoc:
+            session.update_urls(update.urlassoc)
         if update.per_release and update.per_release.keys() != ["version"]:
             if delete:
                 session.withdraw_release(update['version'])
             else:
                 session.publish_release(update.per_release)
-        if update.per_project:
-            session.update_core(update.per_project)
-        if update.urlassoc:
-            session.update_urls(update.urlassoc)
     except FreshmeatSessionException, e:
         print >>sys.stderr,"freshmeat-submit:", e.msg
         sys.exit(1)
diff --git a/freshmeat-submit.xml b/freshmeat-submit.xml
index 285e789..b5e10c6 100644
--- a/freshmeat-submit.xml
+++ b/freshmeat-submit.xml
@@ -65,7 +65,10 @@ standard input.</para>
 <varlistentry>
 <term>-N, --dryrun</term>
 <listitem>
-<para>Dump the generated JSON, but don't ship it. to Freshmeat.</para>
+<para>Generate JSON, but don't ship any modification requests to Freshmeat.
+Useful for debugging in combination with -V.  Note, this mode may generate
+requests which read data from Freshmeat in order to get permalink data.
+</para>
 </listitem>
 </varlistentry>
 <varlistentry>
-- 
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