Hi Till, On Sat, Jan 10, 2004 at 00:54:30 +0100, Till Biedermann wrote:
hi
i am working on a database for crux-ports. Great
this database shoud not be for cvs-ports, because they are easy to browse, search and use with prt-get and the list at clc.berlios.de. Mmmh, I think there should be only one search page for everything, including CVSup ports. Unfortunately our disk quota at Berlios is not large enough to host such a database there. If we can find a solution for that, I'd gladly contribute the current implemention of the search DB. Especially for new users it's very confusing to have many search databases...
i know that there are several solutions in discusion and that a 'real' linux-tool would be the best way. Well, a web based solution is nice because you can access it from any
[...] platform.
so here is my suggestion:
http://www.polarhome.com:793/~till
it is at the moment only filled with dummies for testing. everybody who makes ports for the software he uses could enter his port in the database. I'd rather go for a database which is generated from the ports, not updated by users. If you look at it from a packagers view, it's duplicate work if you have to update the web entry for every change you do in a Pkgfile. There seems to be such an index of httpup repos already: http://www.mikropiiri.org/crux/httpup_index.html
Well, I'm looking forward to some other comments though :-) Best regards, Johannes -- Johannes Winkelmann mailto:jw@tks6.net Biel, Switzerland http://jw.tks6.net