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Thu Nov 13 06:37:38 1997 UTC (26 years, 7 months ago) by veillard
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rpm2html : a generator of Web pages for RPM packages</title>
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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. Preliminary results obtained
by running it on a local mirror of Redhat-4.2 i386 distribution and the RedHat
i386 contrib directores are 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
needed to install another package. Every package is analyzed to retrieve its
dependancies and the ressources it offers. These relationship are expressed
using hyperlinks in the the generated pages. Finding the package providing
the ressource you need is just a matter of a few clicks!</p>
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The ultimate commodity is ensured by indexing this set of pages, allowing to
find instantaneously packages providing the some 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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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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Enjoy !</p>
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Daniel</p>
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<a href="mailto:veillard@w3.org">Daniel Veillard</a>, Thu Nov 13 00:09:11 EST 1997</p>
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