Permanent page reference for packages

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Mon, Sep 25, 2006 at 04:37:09PM +0200, Gianluca Sforna wrote:
> On 9/25/06, José Matos <jamatos at fc.up.pt> wrote:
> >Hi,
> >        recently in the lyx-devel list there was a request for a url 
> >        regarding lyx in
> >different linux distributions.
> >
> >        The outcome was more or less this:
> >
> >* [[Debian -> http://packages.debian.org/lyx]]
> >* [[Gentoo -> http://gentoo-portage.com/app-office/lyx]]
> >* [[SuSE -> \
> >    http://www.novell.com/products/linuxpackages/suselinux/lyx.html]]
> >* [[Fedora Core 5 -> \
> >http://fedoraproject.org/extras/5/x86_64/repodata/repoview/lyx-0-1.4.3-1.fc5.html]]
> 
> Mee too for mantis:
> http://wiki.mantisbugtracker.com/doku.php/mantisbt:distributions
> the best thing I come to was pointing to the M page of repoview, not
> so convenient:
> http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/extras/5/i386/repodata/repoview/M.group.html
> 
> >
> >  Is there any generic link for packages like the other distributions 
> >  above?
> >If not, what needs to be done for Fedora to have one?
> 
> I think the first step would be to create a repoview-like script which
> should populate a table of:
> package | version FCx | version FCy | version FCdevel

And link to the various other resources related to the package, eg the upstream
website / download URL, the Bugzilla component, the appropriate path in CVS web
and Fedora maintainer's name & email address. 

Dan.
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