On Wed, May 31, 2006 at 04:06:10PM +0200, Pascal Bleser wrote:
- some packager from the openSUSE community (me, Packman, Novell KDE packagers, ...) makes SUSE Linux RPMs of amarok 1.4.1 - that packager sends the amarok devs a file that contains the data as described by Benjamin (see below) - the amarok devs put it on their website, in the download section (instead of just posting an URL that points to the download directory of the amarok RPMs for SUSE Linux); alternatively, they could post a link to that file on the actual repository server the packages are in
OK. This is something else what I did not get from Benjamin. It seems that we were mainly talking about the same issues: The developer won't do anything. <snip> OK, I have already admited I don't know enough about XML, but is there a reason not to use XML? I asume (after reading below) because there already exists a .repo format.
What would be needed: - define a format (dare I say a "standard"/"specification") for those files - add MIME handlers for them (Firefox + Konqueror) that trigger a script that passes it to yast2/rug/smart/... - yast2/rug/smart/... first check whether they already have that repository in their list and, if not, they prompt the user for confirmation and then add it
That was also something i was directing at: <quote> e.g. http://packman.mirror.example.com/somedir/suse10_1.repo or repo://packman.mirror.example.com/somedir/suse10_1 </quote>
Note that those .repo files can already be imported directly as smart channels: smart channel --add \ http://software.opensuse.org/download/KDE:/Backports/SUSE_Linux_10.1/KDE:Bac...
So it already exists. It "only" needs to be included in YaST, lybzipp and what not. <snip>
something like .torrent on wich you click and the repo is to be added. e.g. http://packman.mirror.example.com/somedir/suse10_1.repo or repo://packman.mirror.example.com/somedir/suse10_1 if you just want to point to a directory with not much fuss.
Ugh.. what would be the point of using torrent ?
Please re-read. *Something like* . And as far as I can see *something like* that already exists. It is is .repo. Great, I just invented hot water and the wheel. :-) So next step: put .repo support into YaST, ... (via browser or directly) Thanks for all the extra info. It seems we were all thinking about the same thing. -- houghi http://houghi.org http://www.plainfaqs.org/linux/ http://www.netmeister.org/news/learn2quote.html
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