Hi Julius, 

> On Apr 11, 2021, at 9:23 AM, Julius Schwartzenberg 
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> [..]
> Thank you so much for the clear answers and the elaboration on the repos! It 
> is indeed interesting and quite helpful to know a bit more on this. We are 
> using the repositories in some scripts that live in this repository:
> https://github.com/dosemu2/install-freedos
> 
> I am not sure yet what would be the best way to interact with the repository 
> without introducing a lot of complexity. I hope that it might be possible to 
> switch over to using fdnpkg but that would require having working internet 
> connectivity out of the box inside DOSEMU, for which some steps still need to 
> be taken.
> 
> Thanks again for taking the time to elaborate!!

No problem. You are welcome. :-)

I don’t know if this helps.  But whenever packages have been updated on the 
repo, the repository management software builds a new cdrom.iso late that night 
which contains only the latest versions of all the packages on the repo. It 
also updates a listing.csv that contains a list of those packages and their 
metadata. Both can be found in the root dir of the repo at 
https://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/repositories/latest/ 
<https://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/repositories/latest/>
Also, there is a listing.txt file. It is tab separated. It doesn't contain all 
the metadata and is much smaller than the csv. However, it is probably a little 
easier to parse with scripts. 

:-)

Jerome


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