Re: querying available package versions over the net

2005-03-23 Thread Roderick Schertler
On Sat, 12 Mar 2005 18:04:18 +0100, Goswin von Brederlow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > Why not create your own apt/lists and apt/cache directory, run apt-get > update and then apt-cache on the same? The debget package description > says it "doesn't require a local copy of the Packages files", may

Re: querying available package versions over the net

2005-03-12 Thread Clément Stenac
Hello, Perhaps the best solution would be if I would offer a interface to packages.debian.org that is easier parsable than the current one. Patches and/or proposals in other forms welcome. I read the slides of your FOSDEM presentation but couldn't find anything on this. What about offering SOAP or

Re: querying available package versions over the net

2005-03-12 Thread Clément Stenac
Hello Patches and/or proposals in other forms welcome. Gruesse, I read the slides of your FOSDEM presentation but couldn't find anything on this. What about offering SOAP or XML-RPC access to as many debian web services as possible ? It would save the people who want to develop scripts based

Re: querying available package versions over the net

2005-03-12 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Roderick Schertler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > In order to fix debget to work with package pools > (http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=84368) I need to know > what versions of a package are available, without relying on apt's > cache. (The main point of the program is to fetch ver

Re: querying available package versions over the net

2005-03-11 Thread Roderick Schertler
On Fri, 11 Mar 2005 13:17:25 +0100, Frank Lichtenheld <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > Perhaps the best solution would be if I would offer a interface to > packages.debian.org that is easier parsable than the current one. Yes, that would be great. Especially if the data also told you the source pack

Re: querying available package versions over the net

2005-03-11 Thread Frank Lichtenheld
On Fri, Mar 11, 2005 at 06:53:20AM -0500, Roderick Schertler wrote: > Another approach is to parse the info from packages.debian.org. This > is what reportbug does, using its own code (checkversions.py). Does > anybody know of code to do this from Perl, or the shell? If not my > current idea is

querying available package versions over the net

2005-03-11 Thread Roderick Schertler
In order to fix debget to work with package pools (http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=84368) I need to know what versions of a package are available, without relying on apt's cache. (The main point of the program is to fetch versions of a package for distributions which aren't in you