a better webinterface to our packages (Was: Re: New Fedora Extras Steering Committee chair)

[Andreas Bierfert]

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Konstantin Ryabitsev wrote:
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> The Repository-That-Must-Not-Be-Named won't be allowed on an official
> resource run by the project in any shape or form.

I know but code written for a webportal can be used there as well ^^

> 1. You realize that "besides LAMP not require anything on the server
> side" will pull in a whole lot more requirements than "have anything
> other than LAMP"? :)

Sure, just from the point of the webserver: Don't need Fedora and yum and repos
and these things on it.

> 2. "Not use yum in any way" is going to quickly become
> counter-productive, since you will have to replicate all of the
> functionality already included in yum, and do it in PHP of all things.
> Your codebase will balloon for no apparent purpose other than "not
> depending on yum."

Yes I know it would but this is because I missed the sqlite part ^^

> The dbms already exists – yum caches all package data in sqlite
> databases. You'll be duplicating a lot of effort. Much easier to just
> reuse what yum already does well and fast.

I know I sould have switched from apt sooner ^^

> I have a counter-offer. I will write a small addition to repoview that
> would offer a small outward-visible python script, requiring just a
> cgi-bin directory. This script will accept one parameter – query term
> that would be matched against name, summary, and description of each
> package and output the links to static repoview pages of all matched
> packages.

Sounds good to me. If this is not enough (which time will tell) I am certainly
there to help out.

> Would that be a better idea?

Sure worth a try. If you need help just let my know.

- - Andreas
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