Re: New snapshot release of gnorpm

[James Henstridge <james daa com au>]

For finding the XML libraries, I just used the GNOME_XML_CHECK macro from
the standard macros package.  Maybe it should be updated to use
xml-config?

For your problem with it not downloading fullIndex.rdf.gz, currently I
have a very weak caching scheme.  If the file has already been downloaded,
and hasn't expired (expire time set in preferences), then it doesn't
download the file.  If the cached copy is wrong, simply remove it and it
should be fetched again.  I probably need to do a bit of work on this
caching scheme.

As for FTP support, it is there and should work if you don't have any
restrictive firewalling.  I was hoping to use libghttp to do proxied ftp
requests (the squid style proxy where HTTP is used for the transfer, not
the one that uses FTP protocol and usernames of the form user@host), but
it barfs if you give it a URL that doesn't start with http://.  I
personally think that libghttp should accept other URLs when it is using a
proxy.  Unfortunately I don't think I have enough time to hack this into
libghttp.

James Henstridge.

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On Fri, 12 Feb 1999, Daniel Veillard wrote:

>   Hi James,
> 
> > I have put up another snapshot of my gnorpm RPM frontend.  This time it
> > includes all the files needed to build rpmfind functionality in.  I have
> > put in some significant speedups for the rpmfind search window (it was
> > dure to some bad code on my part).
> 
>  Cool, but I was unable to use it.
> first small point, in find/include, use "`xml-config --cflags`" instead of
> hardcoding the path to the libxml includes.
> Second I got a problem with the ghttp detection, configure didn't find
> it, it's probably not important I just did the link phase by hand adding
> -lghttp before -lgnome
> The last point is more annoying, basically if I launch gnorpm, it says
> 
> 
> /u/veillard/.gnome/gnorpm.d/resources/fullIndex.rdf.gz:1: error: Document is empty
> 
>  ^
> 
>  ** WARNING **: can't open catalog '/u/veillard/.gnome/gnorpm.d/resources/fullIndex.rdf.gz'
> 
> As soon as I try to get something from the rpmfind dialog box. I understand
> that there is an HTTP request to be made before accessing the file but it
> doesn't seems to be done. I wasn't able to test the interface ...
> 
> As a side note, in case the FTP support is lacking, all files from 
>    ftp://rpmfind.net/linux/... are also available via HTTP under
>   http://rpmfind.net/linux/...
>  
> 
> > For those who don't know, rpmfind is a system for finding and
> > downloading RPMs on the internet and making sure you get RPMs to satisfy
> > all the dependencies.  The system was set up by Daniel Veillard.  Gnorpm
> > provides a nice GUI client to this system (click on the web find toolbar
> > button).
> 
>   Horribly outdated documentation for the on-line version is at
>     http://rpmfind.net/linux/rpm2html/rpmfind.html
> 
>   Daniel
> 
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