Re: Searching through the contents of .jigdo files: jigdo-search.php
On Tuesday 23 August 2005 02:33, Joey Hess wrote:
> Richard Atterer wrote:
> > I liked this idea a lot, but saw some room for improvement, so I ended up
> > re-implementing this myself:
> >
> > <http://atterer.net/jigdo/jigdo-search.php>
> >
> > In contrast to the other script, it has a daily cron job running in the
> > background which automatically updates the list of known .jigdo files, so
> > the results will always be up to date. In a private mail, Fenio did not
> > have any problem with my version being linked from the CD web pages
> > instead of his.
> >
> > What do people think, is it OK like that? As usual, if I don't hear
> > anything, I'll add links to it from the CD pages. :)
>
> It seems to me that the best place to integrate this would be on
> packages.debian.org. A "what CD is this package on?" link or even just a
> "Package on CD n" would be great.
It would be hard to get accuracy imho because Richard's script searches/lists
the content of jigdo files which are snapshot of stable / testing/ ! unstable
suites lagging ~ a week behind the current state of packages.debian.org which
is a moving target, e.g. you might end having pack1 on cd1 in archive, but
pack1 on cd2 in jigdo files, which used to the case for the archive a week
ago or so when these jigdo files have been snapped... It could be a rare
case for stable, not so rare to testing, and almost unpredictable for
unstable if there are any jigdo files generated further.
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