Re: Independant (or free) updater ?

[Philippe Roy <ph_roy yahoo com>]

Rpmfind : 
Can it manage debian package and tar.gz too ?

It use a *central* database at rpmfind.net.
But, when this central don't have updates ? Or for unfamous/old/old
version/little softs ?
My idea is decentralization.

On Sun, 17 Sep 2000, Daniel Veillard wrote:
> Date: Sun, 17 Sep 2000 16:35:07 +0200
> To: Karl Gutenberg <GlueSoft gmx de>
> From: Daniel Veillard <Daniel Veillard w3 org>
> Reply-To: Daniel Veillard w3 org
> Subject: Re: Independant (or free) updater ?
> 
> On Sun, Sep 17, 2000 at 04:18:17PM +0000, Karl Gutenberg wrote:
> > 
> > Hello,
> > 
> > >  Have a look at rpmfind tool, I actually already grow a 600MBytes
> > > database of XML metadata on packages.
> > >    http://rpmfind.net/linux/rpm2html/rpmfind.html
> > 
> > Will rpmfind --autoupgrade work with Helix too?
> 
>   Works well for me. I added 
> autoupgradeURL=ftp://rpmfind.net/linux/helix/distributions/Red_Hat_6
> 
>  among the list of autoupgraded directories and it woks fine ...
> I'm using the CVS version though, the 1.5 is getting old I need to make
> a new release.
>  The bad think is that since Helix doesn't sign its packages (will
> this "feature" be reserved to paying customers ?) you can't have a
> proof that the pacckage wasn't hacked. If you disagree with this,
> stick with your distribution packages which are signed for most of
> them (or change your distribution !).
> 
> > One thing I noted was that with _helix_ and _eazel_ packages, I often
> have 
> > things installed but packages won't find it, demanding a specific
> package to 
> > be present..... so I got used to --nodeps with rpm quite often... :(
> 
>    Eeeek don't do this. Rpmfind looks at the dependancies before 
> launching rpm, and *will never force* an install. Forcing an install
> means that you will get serious shit sooner or later.
> 
>    Okay I will release rpmfind-1.6 today, so more people can play
> with it.
> 
> Daniel
> 
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