On Wed, May 31, 2006 at 04:06:10PM +0200, Pascal Bleser wrote: > - some packager from the openSUSE community (me, Packman, Novell KDE > packagers, ...) makes SUSE Linux RPMs of amarok 1.4.1 > - that packager sends the amarok devs a file that contains the data as > described by Benjamin (see below) > - the amarok devs put it on their website, in the download section > (instead of just posting an URL that points to the download directory > of the amarok RPMs for SUSE Linux); alternatively, they could post a > link to that file on the actual repository server the packages are in
OK. This is something else what I did not get from Benjamin. It seems that we were mainly talking about the same issues: The developer won't do anything. <snip> OK, I have already admited I don't know enough about XML, but is there a reason not to use XML? I asume (after reading below) because there already exists a .repo format. > What would be needed: > - define a format (dare I say a "standard"/"specification") for those > files > - add MIME handlers for them (Firefox + Konqueror) that trigger a > script that passes it to yast2/rug/smart/... > - yast2/rug/smart/... first check whether they already have that > repository in their list and, if not, they prompt the user for > confirmation and then add it That was also something i was directing at: <quote> e.g. http://packman.mirror.example.com/somedir/suse10_1.repo or repo://packman.mirror.example.com/somedir/suse10_1 </quote> > Note that those .repo files can already be imported directly as smart > channels: > smart channel --add \ > http://software.opensuse.org/download/KDE:/Backports/SUSE_Linux_10.1/KDE:Backports.repo So it already exists. It "only" needs to be included in YaST, lybzipp and what not. <snip> > > something like .torrent on wich you click and the repo is to be added. > > e.g. http://packman.mirror.example.com/somedir/suse10_1.repo > > or repo://packman.mirror.example.com/somedir/suse10_1 if you just want to > > point to a directory with not much fuss. > > Ugh.. what would be the point of using torrent ? Please re-read. *Something like* . And as far as I can see *something like* that already exists. It is is .repo. Great, I just invented hot water and the wheel. :-) So next step: put .repo support into YaST, ... (via browser or directly) Thanks for all the extra info. It seems we were all thinking about the same thing. -- houghi http://houghi.org http://www.plainfaqs.org/linux/ http://www.netmeister.org/news/learn2quote.html > > Today I went outside. My pupils have never been tinier... --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
