On Mon, 2006-17-07 at 11:21 +0300, Tommi Komulainen wrote: > Hi, > > I hacked together a small script which reads the Packages.gz files from > a configured set of repositories and generates a catalog page showing > all packages, grouped by sections. Maybe someone finds this useful. > > Example page: > http://www.iki.fi/tkomulai/maemo/mistral-application-catalog-2006-07-16.html > > Script source: > http://www.iki.fi/tkomulai/maemo/generate-catalog.py > > One thing you may notice is that there's little consistency between > packages currently. > > Personally I think any application catalog should be able to handle and > collect the mandatory information (sections, name, version, description) > automatically so that the data is taken straight from the packages where > it has to be anyway. That should encourage using repositories instead of > links to files as well as increase package metadata quality. Would just > need a way nice way to integrate the package data with screenshots, > comments, etc. Maybe Debian or Ubuntu already have one, I don't know. > > Of course once you crawl multiple repositories like this you could even > mirror all the packages in one repository and save the user the trouble > of configuring several of them in the application installer. > > I checked out your applications catalog, and I see that under libraries there should be a libsqlite0 package, but when I look in my app installer list it is not there - I have all the repositories in my catalog, including kernelconcepts that are the source of the package, but the library is not listed - any idea why?
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