Idea for website

[Michael K. Johnson]

On Wed, Oct 01, 2003 at 08:31:01PM +0300, Pekka Pietikainen wrote:
> After downloading a 32MB kernel .src.rpm for the n+1:th time just 
> to look at a 4k patch, I came up with a pretty useful feature for
> the website. Basically a "rpm2html" thing (not the existing one, which 
> does something different), which just basically lets you browse
> .src.rpm's in rawhide and grab invidual files from inside the archive. 
> 
> Or am I the only one who grabs .src.rpm's all the time to figure out 
> what exactly have they done this time? :-)

Once we have package metadata (including patches) in external CVS,
then cvsweb will make this happen easily.  (We already do this
internally for our internal package CVS...)

michaelkjohnson

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