From: Daniel Veillard (Daniel.Veillard@imag.fr)
Date: Thu May 10 2001 - 16:30:40 EDT
On Thu, May 10, 2001 at 07:46:16PM +0100, Ronan Waide wrote:
>
> 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)?
The good news is that I have a better framework for developping
rpmfind/rpm2html : I migrated the CVS base to sources.redhat.com
the list will move there as soon as I have time, there is a nbugtracker,
a cvsweb and decent list archives...
I edited the download page earlier today to update this and
Fabrice Bellet who maintains fr2.rpmfind.net also has commit access so
I'm not the bottleneck anymore :-)
> 2. Who's responsible for the RDF servers, and are /they/ going to be
> fixed?
Well the various responsibles, and me for maintaining the
metadata list on rpmfind. ... There again mirrors going down should
be detectable automatically, and regenerating the RDf from this
list should not be rocket science.
I also spend a large amount of the two last days rebuilding a new
server on the west coast since the MIt one is running into bandwidth
limitations, so I should be able to update the installation page
including the database stuff.
Well I just need 48hours in a day :-\
Daniel
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