Re: arch-dependent searches and downloads
Drat. I forgot to move this to debian-www.
On Fri, Nov 24, 2000 at 10:30:02AM -0500, Jay Treacy wrote:
> Web discussions are held on debian-www@lists.debian.org
>
> It would be a good idea if you notified people before you started
> such work so you don't waste your time. We have not implemented
> this in the past for some technical reasons. Now that packages.d.o
> is not being mirrored we have a lot more freedom to do things
> differently.
>
> It is possible you happen to have done things in an appropriate
> way. I haven't looked at your changes, and won't be able to until
> next week. I can tell you that the way of accessing package
> information will be changed as apt-cache will be used (no
> need for a local ftp archive then. In fact, packages.d.o does
> not have a copy of the unstable archive).
>
> Also, we were contemplating switching to dynamic pages. Since
> the content is updated daily static pages don't make a lot of
> sense. We could simply pull information about a package from
> apt-cache (it does simple package searching too, btw).
>
> --
> James (Jay) Treacy
> treacy@debian.org
Martin Michlmayr <tbm@cyrius.com> wrote:
> Over the last couple of days, I re-wrote the htmlscripts for
> packages.do.o and the download.pl script in order to support
> more than i386.
>
> Currently, download only supports i386 and the package search
> will not show packages which are not available for i386. For
> the latter problem, the Packages files of all architectures
> have to be merged. For the former problem, the pages.pl and
> download.pl scripts had to be re-written.
>
> Please copy:
> 1. master:~tbm/crontab to /org/packages.debian.org
> 2. master:~tbm/download.pl to /org/cgi.debian.org/cgi-bin/
> 3. master:~tbm/htmlscripts to /org/packages.debian.org (the whole
> directory; or make a diff and apply it: ok, you can use
> ~tbm/htmlscripts-diff).
> 4. run crontab
>
> I have tested the scripts quite a bit and think they work. But please
> look at the changes I made yourself... (/me mumbles something about
> using CVS for those scripts would be nice).
>
> IMHO there is only one problem left: when you can choose the
> architecture you want to download, all archs are displayed even if the
> package is not available for that arch (it's not really a problem,
> there won't be an error just a message saying that the package is not
> available). It would be nicer just to offer those archs for which
> the package is actually available. I will implement that later.
>
> Let me know what you think.
> --=20
> Martin Michlmayr
> tbm@cyrius.com
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James (Jay) Treacy
treacy@debian.org
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