rpm2html : a generator of Web pages for RPM packages

Versions 1.2 of rpmfind and rpm2html are available. Download and give them a try!

rpm2html automatically generates Web pages describing a set of RPM packages. Preliminary results obtained by running it on a local mirror of the Redhat distribution and the RedHat contrib directores are available. SuSE-5.1 RPM packages have been added as well as XFree86 updates from SuSE, especially useful for the new chipsets. I added also OpenLinux Lite 1.1.1 to the list of dristribution, and added warning when a package doesn't provide a correct set of resources.

The goals of rpm2html are also to identify the dependencies between various packages and to find the package(s) providing the resources needed to install a given package. Every package is analyzed to retrieve its dependencies and the resources it offers. These relationships are expressed using hyperlinks in the generated pages. Finding the package providing the resource you need is just a matter of a few clicks!

The ultimate commodity is ensured by indexing this set of pages, allowing the user to find instantaneously the package(s) providing any given functionality (as long as the package maintainer has properly commented the RPM).

Rpm2html now support RDF encoding and decoding of RPM metadata. The long term goal is to provide metadata information for RPM packages on a large scale and use them to automate searching, installing and upgrade linux packages.

Rpm2html is free software, released under the W3C License.

Try the result of indexing approximately 35000 RPM packages for various platforms and distributions

If you like it, build your own!

I was running out of disk space again so I got a new 11 Gig drive (I also bought a Promise IDE card to host the new drive(s)). I will now start providing non-linux RPM packages, starting with Solaris ones coming from Real-Time.Com repository. I also added a couple of Windows/Cygwin32 RPMs and the Turbolinux distributions 3.0 and PPC, see the RPM repository main page

Daniel