On Fri, Nov 28, 2003 at 04:27:17PM +0000, Jonathan Dowland wrote: > Has anyone heard of a web-based frontend to apt? What I am thinking of > is configuring a browser to accept some kind of pseudo-protocol such as > apt://package-name > > 'Why' you might ask? Well, I've been thinking for a long time about > different ways the archive could be organised. I've just browser through > the entire devel section looking for specific tools related to > comprehension that are somewhat drowned in the rest of the stuff > there. > > If you could configure a browser in debian to accept urls of the form > apt://package-name , or perhaps something more sensible, such that a > debian user properly configured could click on the link and launch > apt-get or aptitude or similar to install the package, then we could > experiment with different ways of organising the archive through > 3rd-party websites. (I would chuck together some kind of wiki-thing for > tools to support code comprehension, personally.) > > If I were to skim over the above I'd start to get worries of 'security > threat' etc. however what I am proposing is not that a website could get > you to install a package hosted there, just suggest a package to be > installed- you would use your normal mirrors. > > Erm yes, so, any ideas or opinions? Have I made myself clear or am I > just rambling incoherently? >
I've written some Perl scripts that use HTTP::Daemon to basically webify some of my scripts, which I then drive from Mozilla via http. I could write a full blown apache thing, but this is much lighter-weight, and the script runs as me. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
