desc and sumary in an html

[Paul W. Frields]

On Fri, 2006-10-20 at 10:37 -0400, Paul W. Frields wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-10-17 at 23:04 +0000, Boris Becker wrote:
> > I found it useful to search in the desc file for a specific package that has 
> > a functionality that I need for a specific job.
> > I learned a lot just by translating those strings. I knew packages that I 
> > did not know they exists, although, I am a Red Hat user since version 3.1.
> > I think it would be very useful to have an html version of the combined desc 
> > and summary files, together with the package name and version in the way 
> > anaconda shows them.
> > But in one file or no more than 4 files, in the wiki, so one can look for 
> > something by using Ctrl-F in that/those file(s), or by using the search 
> > utility in the wiki.
> > Maybe what I am asking for is already made, if so, it is hard for me to find 
> > it, give me the link.
> > If not, please consider creating an html file from the desc and summary file 
> > for their respective languages to put it on the Fedora wiki.
> 
> I think most people do this with repoquery, for example:
> 
>   $ repoquery -qa --qf '%{NAME} %{VERSION}-%{RELEASE} : %{SUMMARY}'
> 
> Altaernately you could look at:
> 
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/describecomponents.cgi?product=Fedora%20Core
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/describecomponents.cgi?product=Fedora%20Extras
> 
> Feel free to wiki these links somewhere appropriate.

It now occurs to me that you may not have been talking about the summary
and description *FIELDS* from a software package.  If not, my apologies!

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