Re: feature requests galore!!!

On Sun, Aug 25, 2002 at 02:35:14PM -0400, Jef Spaleta wrote:
> 
> On Sun, 2002-08-25 at 14:24, Jeff Johnson wrote:
> > Yes, Red Hat specific, but the functionality is available in rpm no
> matter
> > what. If you want the glop cached, but for a custom, non Red Hat
> centric,
> > collection of packages, use the same format. Attached is
> /usr/lib/rpm/getpo.sh
> > that generates the (highly compressible) specspo format file from a
> collection
> > of packages.
> > 
> > 'Tain't hard, just obscure.
> 
> 
> just obscure...and it would have to be done on the server side....its

i18n is pretty obscure, but yes, the rpm i18n is even 'scurer. :-)

Maybe on the "server side", maybe not. The tag retrieval is by package name
only, not full name-version-release. That means that the Red Hat specspo
package could be used even for a non-redhat distro. It's not like
any of the Summary/Group/Description info is changing all that fast,
what's needed is a hint about package contents, not the very latest
info, most of the time. Even the very latest "stuff" is often wrong
and/or misleading until someone -- other than a developer -- pays attention.

73 de Jeff

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