>>>>> "Bryan" == Bryan Andregg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Sat, 9 May 1998 01:11:52 -0700 (PDT), David Masterson wrote:
>> Ah, come on -- that's a little harsh. Before the web came along,
>> FTP sites provided information like this all the time. Files like
>> 'ls-lR' and ".lsm" and "README" files were put up all the time to
>> give the FTPer a little help in deciding if the file was
>> interesting. My shell script just uses a feature of the 'rpm'
>> command to totally automate providing good information like these
>> files had.
> Yes, and then the web came along and offered a better method of
> providing information. We still provide ls-lR files as well as
> offering a query only version of rpm (> site exec rpm -qip
> some.rpm). However, the number of RPMs and the maintenance of
> current versions and the 15 different types of information that
> people want don't lend themselves to us offering much more on the
> ftp site. We are rebuilding our web site and it will have all of
> this information.
I agree wholeheartedly that you shouldn't go to extreme efforts to
include all sorts of information on the FTP site that would be better
represented in a web-page (although, I could see enhancing RPM to
output more of this information). The shell script I suggested was
meant to be simple, easy to implement with cron, and require no more
input than what was already on the web-site.
By the way, is there a relationship between www.redhat.com and
freshmeat.net? Freshmeat appears to have the complete index of RPMs
in a searchable web-page format (I could quibble with some of the
arrangement, but...). Also, I'm still looking around in
developer.redhat.com, but it also has the RPMs in an indexed form. I
have wondered why there isn't a prominent web-link on the
www.redhat.com web-page to these other sites (if the link's there, I
haven't found it yet). I found both these sites after my initial
posting.
>> I don't know about others, but I'd prefer my RPM_INFO files to
>> doing web searches. I could build an automated FTP to grab the
>> MASTER_INDEX at regular intervals and peruse/search it in my own
>> fashion on my machine when I want. I could even have an automated
>> script scan the INDEX for RPMs mentioning specific words or
>> phrases. The web searches are still useful for the uninitiated,
>> but there's no need to limit your view.
> You can do all of this with wget.
Assuming the INDEX files are on the web-site -- yes, exactly. I
hadn't found out about this command yet, but I probably would have
found it with the first download of index files.
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David Masterson
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