On Sat, 9 May 1998 01:11:52 -0700 (PDT), David Masterson wrote:
>
>Ah, come on -- that's a little harsh. Before the web came along, FTP
>sites provided information like this all the time. Files like 'ls-lR'
>and ".lsm" and "README" files were put up all the time to give the
>FTPer a little help in deciding if the file was interesting. My shell
>script just uses a feature of the 'rpm' command to totally automate
>providing good information like these files had.
Yes, and then the web came along and offered a better method of providing
information. We still provide ls-lR files as well as offering a query only
version of rpm (> site exec rpm -qip some.rpm). However, the number of RPMs
and the maintenance of current versions and the 15 different types of
information that people want don't lend themselves to us offering much more on
the ftp site. We are rebuilding our web site and it will have all of this
information.
>I don't know about others, but I'd prefer my RPM_INFO files to doing
>web searches. I could build an automated FTP to grab the MASTER_INDEX
>at regular intervals and peruse/search it in my own fashion on my
>machine when I want. I could even have an automated script scan the
>INDEX for RPMs mentioning specific words or phrases. The web searches
>are still useful for the uninitiated, but there's no need to limit
>your view.
You can do all of this with wget.
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