Someone please test apt-portal and see what it offers or how much work it is to hack it to do what we want. I don't think it's much work: oe-based distros and debian shouldn't be a problem since the repositories are veeery close to the ubuntu repositories used by playdeb -> I'd guess that setting up the first versions is a breeze (for someone who knows python & web-things..).
- Packages classification (main, optional, additional) - Translation support for the site template - List recent changes to the repository (with apturl feeds) - Support for packages/applications descriptions translation - Automated packages information import/update from Packages(.gz,/.bz2) files -> works out of the box for oe-based and debian based distros?! - AJAX filter/search for names, descriptions and tags -> tags can be used to separate different distro releases? As playdeb already supports different Ubuntu version (like 9.04, 8.10 etc..) I can't image it being hard to change apt-portal to manage these as different distros (om2009, SHR, debian..) see http://www.playdeb.net/release_select/ Building from scratch is tons of work and stupid as we already have apt-portal around. And app-centric vs. distro-centric, I don't think it makes sense to create separate installations of apt-portal for each distro but have all apps in the same system separating distros by tags/categories/source repositories. So the first thing a user selects is his distro and then he'd only see the apps for his distro. -> my 2 cents go for apt-portal so now we have.. hmm.. not enought to buzz-fix FR of the one who sets up apt-portal for us :) r -- | risto h. kurppa | risto at kurppa dot fi | http://risto.kurppa.fi _______________________________________________ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community