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Thu Nov 13 05:04:34 1997 UTC (26 years, 7 months ago) by veillard
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Lot of improvements, copyright, URLs, E-mail, and config files, Daniel.

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<h1 align=center>rpm2html : a generator of <a
href="http://www.w3.org/">Web</a> pages for <a
href="http://www.rpm.org/">RPM</a> packages</h1>
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<strong>rpm2html</strong> generate automatically Web pages describing a set of
<a href="http://www.rpm.org/">RPM</a> packages given as argument on the
command line. The source is not yet available but preliminary result obtained
by running it on a local mirror of Redhat-4.2 i386 distribution and the RedHat
i386 contrib directory is available.</p>
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The goal of rpm2html is also to identify the dependancies between various
packages, and being able to find the packages providing the ressources you
need to install a given package. Every package is analyzed to retrieve it's
dependancies and the ressources it offers, an these relationship are stored in
the generated pages. Finding the package providing the ressource you need to
install another one is just a matter of following the hypertext links :-).</p>
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The ultimate commodity is ensured by indexing this set of pages, allowing to
find instantaneously the package profiding the desired functionnalities (as
long as the package maintainer has properly commented the RPM).</p>
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Here is the result of this indexing for around 1700 RPMs:</p>
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The list of <a href="/linux/RPM/Groups.html">RPM indexed by category</a>
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The list of <a href="/linux/RPM/ByDate.html">RPM indexed by date of
shipping</a>
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The list of <a href="/linux/RPM/Vendors.html">RPM indexed by maintainer</a>
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The list of <a href="/linux/RPM/Distributions.html">RPM indexed by
distribution</a>
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rpm2html is only in it's infancy, but may prove useful, unfortunately, most of
the FTP links won't work yet, this will be fixed soon ! I also expect to ship
the code ASAP.</p>
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Performance-wise, the actual code is Ok, generating the full set of pages from
approximately 1700 packages, took 45 seconds on a PPro, and is clearly I/O
bound.</p>
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Two other good directories for Linux applications are:</p>
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<a href="http://sal.kachinatech.com/">SAL</a> : focusing on Scientific
Applications for Linux
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The <a href="http://www.xnet.com/~blatura/linapps.shtml">Linux Applications
and Utilities Page</a> has been around for a long time.
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Daniel</p>
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<a href="mailto:veillard@w3.org">Daniel Veillard</a>, Tue Nov 11 20:17:37
1997</p>
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