[CentOS-devel] Web based Package DB
R P Herrold
herrold at centos.org
Tue Jun 22 16:14:34 UTC 2010
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
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