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I've taken what's in the packages.gentoo.org database and converted it |
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to ad-hoc XML. This is in hopes of someday actually making it useful. |
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There are XML files divided by architecture and "branch", for example" |
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http://packages.gentoo.org/archs/x86/stable/portage.xml |
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... just like the rest of the site works, pretty much. I am no XML |
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whiz, and would appreciate suggestions. Also, not all fields are |
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present because not all fields yet exist in the packages.g.o database. |
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I present everything that's in the db except the changelog. |
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I also hope to add xml output to the regular pages, for example, |
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http://packages.gentoo.org/packages/?category=net-www&format=xml |
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Files are large but compress well, for example, 3.2MB x86/stable gzips |
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down to 400k, bzip2s to 272k. |
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Lots of possibilities. I will place the code in cvs as soon as I get |
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over programmer's bashfulness ;-) |
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--m |
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