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1.1       veillard    1: <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">
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                      4: <title>
                      5: rpm2html : a generator of Web pages for RPM packages</title>
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                      7: <body bgcolor="#ffffff">
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                      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
1.3       veillard   14: <a href="http://www.rpm.org/">RPM</a> packages. Preliminary results obtained
1.1       veillard   15: by running it on a local mirror of Redhat-4.2 i386 distribution and the RedHat
1.3       veillard   16: i386 contrib directores are available.</p>
1.1       veillard   17: <p>
                     18: The goal of rpm2html is also to identify the dependancies between various
1.4       veillard   19: packages, and being able to find the packages providing the ressources needed
                     20: to install another package. Every package is analyzed to retrieve its
1.3       veillard   21: dependancies and the ressources it offers. These relationship are expressed
1.4       veillard   22: using hyperlinks in the the generated pages. Finding the package providing the
                     23: ressource you need is just a matter of a few clicks!</p>
1.1       veillard   24: <p>
1.7     ! veillard   25: <img src="new.gif" alt="image: new.gif ">The sources of <a
1.6       veillard   26: href="ftp://rufus.w3.org/pub/rpm2html/rpm2html-0.2.tar.gz">rpm2html-0.2</a>
1.7     ! veillard   27: are available. Added features are colorization, localization and possibility
        !            28: to dump the actual installed base of RPM on the local machine.</p>
        !            29: <p>
        !            30: It still lacks a proper support for multiple architectures for one package,
        !            31: high in the TODO list!</p>
1.5       veillard   32: <p>
1.1       veillard   33: The ultimate commodity is ensured by indexing this set of pages, allowing to
1.4       veillard   34: find instantaneously packages providing the some functionnalities (as long as
                     35: the package maintainer has properly commented the RPM).</p>
1.1       veillard   36: <p>
1.4       veillard   37: Here is the <a href="/linux/RPM">result of this indexing</a> for around 1700
                     38: RPMs.</p>
1.7     ! veillard   39: <p>
        !            40: <img src="french.gif" alt="image: french.gif "> Here is the <a
        !            41: href="/linux/RPM-FR">result of this indexing</a> using French localization for
        !            42: around 1700 RPMs.</p>
1.1       veillard   43: <p>
1.2       veillard   44: Two other good directories for Linux applications are:</p>
                     45: <ul>
                     46: <li>
                     47: <a href="http://sal.kachinatech.com/">SAL</a> : focusing on Scientific
                     48: Applications for Linux
                     49: <li>
                     50: The <a href="http://www.xnet.com/~blatura/linapps.shtml">Linux Applications
                     51: and Utilities Page</a> has been around for a long time.
                     52: </ul>
                     53: <p>
1.3       veillard   54: Enjoy !</p>
                     55: <p>
1.1       veillard   56: Daniel</p>
                     57: <hr>
                     58: <p>
1.4       veillard   59: <a href="mailto:veillard@w3.org">Daniel Veillard</a>, Thu Nov 13 00:09:11 EST
                     60: 1997</p>
1.1       veillard   61: <p>
                     62: </p>
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