Hi there! I'm the developer of Listaller, a cross-distro software installer/manager and therefore also interested in this topic, as it is one of the major technical problems which are currently not solved very well :) Unfortunately I couldn't attend the AppInstaller meeting. (I wanted to, but couldn't take the time off)
On Thu, 20 Jan 2011 23:02:07 +0100, Enrico Zini <enr...@enricozini.org> wrote: > On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 10:54:44AM +1100, Silvio Cesare wrote: > >> I have generated a list of roughly equivalent packages between Linux >> distributions (currently Debian 5 and Fedora 13). The list is >> automatically generated. > [...] > [...] > The main use case we have in mind is to be able to fall back on other > distros when a package doesn't have some piece of information. For > example: > > - does package $foo have a screenshot in Debian? > - if no, how about in Fedora? > - if no, how about in OpenSUSE? > - if no, how about in Mandriva? > > The example uses screenshots, but it could be other kinds of metadata, > like categories (it's a way for example to port at least some of Debtags > to other distros), ratings or user comments. Yeah, especially the Debtags would be extremely valuable! > The heuristics I've been implementing so far are: > > - trivial package name matching > - 'stemming' specific kinds of package names (debian:lifoo-dev->foo; > fedora:foo-devel->foo) > - matching packages that contain the same .desktop files or the same > pkg-config files > - similarity matching of file lists I to _exactly_ the same at time! I compare data from Sophie ( http://sophie.zarb.org/ ) and UDD (mostly similar files and names) and then cache the data in a SQLite DB. > I still don't have results because the implementation is not complete, > but I should have something in a day or two. You have something *today*, > which is, wow. Tomorrow (Friday) I'll download your dataset and try to > add another euristic that just uses it. It'll also be interesting to use > all these methods to cross-validate each other. Although I don't have much time at time, I'm interested in helping... (But I have two other projects which take priority...) How can I get some more information about the project, and is there a possibility to add some more, extended data, which is not directly required to fetch meta-data? (Then I could drop my own implementation of "PackageCompare") Kind regards Matthias Klumpp -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4e46f573fa89af609bd04e1a2abab...@mb8-2.1blu.de
