On Tue, 22 Jun 2010, Karanbir Singh wrote:
Didi and I met up yesterday afternoon and had a chat about creating a web interface to the centos repositories. Something along the lines of repoview, but a thicker, richer experience. So what features would everyone like to see from something like this ? We have a few ideas already, but it would be nice to get feedback on what people expect ( so we know how far off the mark we were :) )
I do not know that it is going to mees the complaints seen in the IRC channel, but a simple 'reverse criss-cross' on exploded package manifests can begin to populate a query database such as at: http://www.debian.org/distrib/packages
Performance may matter, so gatewaying into a rpmlib quiery against a rpmdb [yum can do a variant of this with detail from a createrepo as well] may or may not work
The 'current' 'base and updates' archives are the obvious first candidates to test a design against; no doubt some one somewhere will want all of 'vault' as well, and I would not be inclined to do that
The top page at http://www.owlriver.com/projects/ORC/ is refreshed one a day in a scripted generation process using selected --queryformat arguments against a simple tree of rpm packages; I auto-build that cache as one off lookups are too expensive
-- Russ herrold