New release of rpm2html and mirroring mechanism

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From: Daniel.Veillard@w3.org
Date: Mon May 11 1998 - 16:17:03 EDT

  Hi,

 I have just released the new version of rpm2html, this tool extract
metadata informations and expose them as a set of HTML Web page like

  http://rufus.w3.org/linux/RPM/

 This release carries a lot of bug fixes, and provide new features
like a "Tree dump", for example:

  http://orchis.w3.org/linux/RPM/redhat/5.0/i386/Tree.html

  is a tree dump of a full installation of Redhat-5.0 for i386 with the
leaves (files or directory) pointing to the package which provided them.

 But the most important feature of this release is the ability to encode
all the metadata in the RDf format

  http://www.w3.org/Metadata/

 and also to be able to rebuild the set of Web pages using just the RDF
encoding of the metadata without the need to have a local mirror of all
the original RPMs. This ease the replication of such a server a lot
(one need to mirror only 60 MBytes of metadata instead of the 8 GByte of
 RPM files). I have set up instruction on how to build such a mirror at:

  http://rufus.w3.org/linux/rpm2html/mirror.html

 Of course I hope that these metadata will will be used in a far more
interesting way than just to build Web pages, for example to try to
automate as much as possible the discovery of package features and ease
the installation and upgrade process of Linux machines.

  hope it will prove useful,

Daniel 

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