Re: Some questions

Hi Jaap,

On Tue, Nov 22, 2005 at 04:09:14PM +0100, Jaap Boender wrote:

> With the EDOS project (http://www.edos-project.org), we're doing research on 
> distribution of open source software (for our university, specifically, 
> dependency management). My particular part in this is, at the moment, writing 
> a parser that can read all kinds of package formats and output them in other 
> formats. [...]

Interesting... are we talking about cross-packaging-system dependencies?
Or just providing software for multiple packaging systems?

> - I'm not very good at Python, but can your programs read APT packages? If so,

At least createrepo can't.

> - The examples and the DTDs are inconsistent with each other. I've used the 
> DTDs for my parser, but is this correct? Or are the samples the 'official' 
> format?

The DTD's are probably a bit outdated (they are two years old), but
I'm leaving the final answer to more authorative persons ;-).

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