3 Feb
2004
3 Feb
'04
1:09 p.m.
On Tue, Feb 03, 2004 at 04:53:06PM +0100, Vincent Touquet wrote:
On Tue, Feb 03, 2004 at 03:32:36PM +0000, Steve Harris
wrote:
It would be nice to provide app authors or packagers with a trivial way
to update the page when they release packages.
A lot of the information we want (release date,
version, dependencies...) is already in RPM spec files,
debian control files, and gentoo ebuild files - we should leverage
that work.
<thinking mode="out loud">
Maybe it would be possible to write a script that can be run on a
linux box and remotely update the soundapps page with all available
info on installed apps (when they are newer than existing ones).
I could ask Agnula, planet-ccrma, et al. to run these scripts in a
cron job from a box that has most/all of their stuff installed.
That would be pretty nifty.
</thinking>
While I'm at it, another entry for each resource could list
distributions and meta-distributions that provide it.
It might be nice to know "Does the Planet have an RPM for this?"
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Er, yes. I think this can be left up to the
submitters discression.
eg. http://freshmeat.net/projects/sweep/
looking at that I guess you would want
required-package and recommended-package being sub-properties of depends-on
I know the Debian system handles recommended/suggested/needed etc. dependencies
pretty well, we could have a peek at whats happening there :)