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1.1     ! veillard    1: <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">
        !             2: <html>
        !             3: <head>
        !             4: <title>
        !             5: rpm2html : a generator of Web pages for RPM packages</title>
        !             6: </head>
        !             7: <body bgcolor="#ffffff">
        !             8: 
        !             9: <h1 align=center>rpm2html : a generator of <a
        !            10: href="http://www.w3.org/">Web</a> pages for <a
        !            11: href="http://www.rpm.org/">RPM</a> packages</h1>
        !            12: <p>
        !            13: <strong>rpm2html</strong> generate automatically Web pages describing a set of
        !            14: <a href="http://www.rpm.org/">RPM</a> packages given as argument on the
        !            15: command line. The source is not yet available but preliminary result obtained
        !            16: by running it on a local mirror of Redhat-4.2 i386 distribution and the RedHat
        !            17: i386 contrib directory is available.</p>
        !            18: <p>
        !            19: The goal of rpm2html is also to identify the dependancies between various
        !            20: packages, and being able to find the packages providing the ressources you
        !            21: need to install a given package. Every package is analyzed to retrieve it's
        !            22: dependancies and the ressources it offers, an these relationship are stored in
        !            23: the generated pages. Finding the package providing the ressource you need to
        !            24: install another one is just a matter of following the hypertext links :-).</p>
        !            25: <p>
        !            26: The ultimate commodity is ensured by indexing this set of pages, allowing to
        !            27: find instantaneously the package profiding the desired functionnalities (as
        !            28: long as the package maintainer has properly commented the RPM).</p>
        !            29: <p>
        !            30: Here is the result of this indexing for around 1700 RPMs:</p>
        !            31: <ul>
        !            32: <li>
        !            33: The list of <a href="/linux/RPM/Groups.html">RPM indexed by category</a>
        !            34: <li>
        !            35: The list of <a href="/linux/RPM/ByDate.html">RPM indexed by date of
        !            36: shipping</a>
        !            37: <li>
        !            38: The list of <a href="/linux/RPM/Vendors.html">RPM indexed by maintainer</a>
        !            39: <li>
        !            40: The list of <a href="/linux/RPM/Distributions.html">RPM indexed by
        !            41: distribution</a>
        !            42: </ul>
        !            43: <p>
        !            44: rpm2html is only in it's infancy, but may prove useful, unfortunately, most of
        !            45: the FTP links won't work yet, this will be fixed soon ! I also expect to ship
        !            46: the code ASAP.</p>
        !            47: <p>
        !            48: Performance-wise, the actual code is Ok, generating the full set of pages from
        !            49: approximately 1700 packages, took 45 seconds on a PPro, and is clearly I/O
        !            50: bound.</p>
        !            51: <p>
        !            52: Daniel</p>
        !            53: <hr>
        !            54: <p>
        !            55: <a href="mailto:veillard@w3.org">Daniel Veillard</a>, Tue Nov 11 20:17:37
        !            56: 1997</p>
        !            57: <p>
        !            58: </p>
        !            59: </body>
        !            60: </html>
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