From: Ronan Waide (waider@waider.ie)
Date: Thu May 10 2001 - 14:46:16 EDT
Ah! Life on the list. I guess this means that rpmfind is still a going
concern, then. I've been hacking at it a bit lately for a few reasons;
one is that mentioned by the other poster - rpmfind simply does not
find the latest versions, or even versions appropriate to my
installation. Compounding the problem is the fact that several of the
RDF sources appear to be broken, and rpmfind needs to be beaten with a
very large stick in order to force it not to use them. What I've done
so far is to make it skip metaservers that are returning 404's - the
sunsite UK one, for example - and proceed to the next server, instead
of trying to parse the 404 message as RDF and then telling me that I
have the latest version of whatever package installed. Generally
speaking, rpmfind does not cope well with failures.
So. I have two questions:
1. Is rpmfind going to be fixed (I can provide patches, once I get my
metaserver scoring code debugged)?
2. Who's responsible for the RDF servers, and are /they/ going to be
fixed?
Cheers,
Waider.
-- waider@waider.ie / Yes, it /is/ very personal of me. "It's too bad that most people don't get the fact that an object-oriented programming style has exactly nothing to do with the programming language you use." - Jamie Zawinski
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