Buildsys issues

seth vidal skvidal at phy.duke.edu
Sun Nov 6 18:49:31 UTC 2005


> Why do we have a repoview per arch? IMHO it would it be a lot easier to
> read and browse the repoview-files if we would have one general
> interface for all archs. 
> 
> Each package description should then of course have a section like this:
> 
> "This package is available for these archs:
> i386 <download  link>
> x86_64 <download link>
> ppc <download link>
> "
> 

b/c we have multiple repositories. and repoview generates per
repository.

> Similar to how thias does it on freshrpms, for example:
> http://stentz.freshrpms.net/rpm.html?id=70
> 
> Build date                   Package 
> 27 Apr 2005 Homepage Download frozen-bubble-1.0.0-8.2.fc4.i386.rpm
> 31 May 2005 Homepage Download frozen-bubble-1.0.0-8.2.fc4.ppc.rpm
> 28 Apr 2005 Homepage Download frozen-bubble-1.0.0-8.2.fc4.x86_64.rpm 
> 
> Creating the repoview-html-files like this would probably also faster
> because it only has to create the files once, and not two (FC3) or three
> (FC4, devel) times a lot of mostly similar files per arch.

I think matthias is pushing that data into a database and querying it
out.

I might be wrong, though.
-sv





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