Sthitaprajna proclaimed:
> On 12 Jul 00, at 13:09, Sudhakar Chandra wrote:
> > If you are writing something for downloading software from FTP sites, how
> > about hooking upto Freshmeat / RpmFind / packages.debian.org / Sunsite ?
> > Probably a much easier solution.
> I would still have to give the package name and there would be no mirror
> and ping to find fastest. Freshmeat and Debian searchforms are ok, but
> rpmfind, YUCK. I wish, things were more organised over there.
Actually, things are more organized than you think. The database of all
the software that is available through rpmfind is available in
easily-parsable XML.
See http://rpmfind.net/linux/rpm2html/mirror.html for info.
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