rpm2html : News

Sorry I just don't have the time to maintain this page anymore, I amy or may not do it but there is no guarantee. checking the download areas is the best way to find out what are the latest version available :-\

• rpmfind-1.5 is out.
• rpmfind-1.2 is out, it include small fixes and should compile on the latest RPM versions.
• rpm2html-1.2 is out, it include small fixes and should compile on the latest RPM versions. The HTML output has been improved too, especially resources pages.
• rpmfind-1.0 is out, bug fixing, a new option --auto for completely automated search, and the upgrade of the underlying XML code.
• rpm2html-1.0 is out, the memory usage has been seriously reduced, some aesthetic changes to the generated HTML pages. Basically 1.0 should be smaller, faster, and also generate better XML.
• A bug was introduced in rpm2html-0.99 which didn't show up in the tests. Also Redhat released a rpm upgrade which broke all programs using older rpm libs so if you face this problem on your system, launch the following command as root:

   cd /usr/lib ; ln -s rpm/rpmpopt . ; ln -s rpm/rpmrc . 

• rpmfind-0.99 is out, with a better mirror search algorithm, and add the capability to search for sources RPM with the --sources option.
• rpm2html-0.99 is out, it add automatic cleanup of the RDF output directories and better source RPM management.
• Due to a stupid bug sorting of mirrors didn't work, so to avoid redirecting everybody to Australia I have made a new release of rpmfind.
• rpmfind-0.98 is out, it add automatic mirror support, user's prefered mirror site (in case the dumb guess algorithm is not good enough or the mirror list incomplete), and distribution rating.

  There is also a mechanism to avoid using packages depending on some resources (or files) and the possibility to block upgrade of some packages (e.g. libc, kernel, ...).

  The result is that the config file $HOME/.rpmfind is more complicated now but hopefully commented by default.

• rpm2html-98 is out too, this is mainly an update release since the XML/RDF code has been upgraded. It dumps mirror informations from the config file too to allow the client to get distribution informations and mirrors lists.
• The RedHat upgrade directories has been added to rufus list, I forgot to add them before.
• rpmfind-0.97 is out, it add regex queries to the full set of package names and sumaries. This should help a lot for packages where the name is not what you would expect (e.g. netscape-communicator or the JDK names). The syntax is :

   rpmfind --apropos regex

• Regenerated the Solaris-2.6 version of rpm2html, available in the FTP area.
• rpm2html-0.97 is out too, when dumping RDF files it also generates an index.
• Added Turbolinux 2.0 to the archive.
• Added a mirror of Beowulf packages, beowulf is a set of tools for clusters of linux workstations, check their home page.
• I added also references to the cryptographic packages available from ftp.replay.com. Note that the software is not available from rpmfind.net, just referenced. Rpmfind also allow to find and fetch the cryptographic packages from replay.com.
• Added SGI Linux 5.1, based on the same RPM set as the official RedHat-5.1 but for Silicon Graphics Indy hardware. If you plan to install it, I strongly suggest to read the on-line documentation for this distribution.
• Added the just released RedHat-5.1 for Sparc.
• I regain control of a Sparc machine and I can now produce Linux-sparc binaries (for ultralinux-1.1). Get them from the download page.
• rpmfind-0.96 is out, it add the capability to download the selected files, and proxy support for HTTP and FTP. I also cleaned up the Makefiles.
• rpm2html-0.96 is out too, the only improvement is the Makefiles cleanup.
• As some of you may have noticed, I had quite a few downtimes last week. Apologies for the broken connections, but I was struggling with hardware madness. BTW, if someone wants to donate a good (i.e. non Adaptec *grin*) PCI Wide SCSI card for rpmfind.net it will be welcome.
• I added a distribution for Motorola 680x0 based machines. It seems quite complete and based on RedHat-5.0 packages.
• rpm2html-0.95 is out ! The rpmfind client side tool is now packaged independently as rpmfind-0.95 . From that point both tools will probably have (somewhat) independent releases. rpm2html nearly didn't change at all since the last release. However rpmfind has been improved to add added a (very basic yet) configuration file. The flags -latest and -upgrade have been added to rpmfind, with the purpose of helping ugrade with installed packages, and while not perfect it's reasonnably useful so I release them.
• I had to repackage rpm2html-0.94 since the RPM libraries shipped with RedHat-5.1 are not backward compatible. If you couldn't start rpmfind whith an error cannot open file //var/lib/rpm/triggerindex.rpm then refetch rpm2html RPM.
• rpm2html development tree is now available by CVS. This is a read-only anonymous CVS tree, i.e. you won't be able to commit but it will be easier to follow the development and submit up-to-date patches. Before you can check out the sources, you need to be running CVS 1.9 or later, and login by running the following command:

  % cvs -d :pserver:anonymous@dev.imag.fr:/sources/public login

  after which you type "anonymous" as password. To get the latest version from the CVS repository, run this command:

  % cvs -d :pserver:anonymous@dev.imag.fr:/sources/public -z3 checkout libwww

  Check the CVS log walker for the current set of release tags.

• rpm2html-0.94 is out ! The rpmfind command is now included in the RPM file. I also moved the software under the W3C Copyright since I use resources from W3C for all this. This is a BSD like license more liberal than the GPL. I added some documentation for rpmfind. Rpm2html also show with small new icons the recent packages.
• Added SGIlinux 5.0 a distribution based on RedHat-5.0 for Silicon Graphics Indy machines.
• rpm2html-0.92 is out ! Mainly it add rpmfind command to do automatic package lookup using the Web of FTP.
• Another RPM database at Real-Time.Com, with RedHat-5.0 and Solaris packages !
• Started compiling an FAQ for rpm2html.
• There is a complete mirror or rufus database setup using metadata mirroring at mnm.lightstream.net.
• Another mirror, hosted by Sunsite Northern Europe (UK) indexes the RedHat and OpenLinux distributions.
• rpm2html-0.91 is out ! Had to fix urgently some bugs in 0.90 ...
• rpm2html-0.90 shipped ! A lot of new stuff, e.g. tree dump, a lot of cleanups.
• But basically the main improvement is the support for RDF encoding of RPM metadata. One can also regenerate the HTML pages just from the metadata , read about mirroring plans.
• Instructions are available for those of you who would like to run a mirror of the rpm2html Web pages.