hi johannes On Sat, 2004-01-10 at 13:49, Johannes Winkelmann wrote:
Mmmh, I think there should be only one search page for everything, including CVSup ports..............Especially for new users it's very confusing to have many search databases...
i agree. it should be no problem to integrate cvs ports 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.
i also totally agree. but this is only an implematation of my first ideas. it should be also no problem to syncronice the database with cvs and httup repositorys. but this will require some rules. for example who updates the database and how is the database updated: with a php-frontend, with sql-dump-files, automatic,... also there should be a clear concept of the database structure. i dont know much about database-theory, so my draft is surely far away from being perfect.
There seems to be such an index of httpup repos already: http://www.mikropiiri.org/crux/httpup_index.html
nice. i did not know that page. but this one seems to be generated from installed httpup-port-directories. so the completeness is not guaranteed. also this page it is well hidden. so this is no help for new crux-users. regards till