Re: [RULE] do we need a spreadsheet of the software?

[M. Fioretti]

On Sat, Feb 22, 2003 16:33:48 at 04:33:48PM -0800, Eugene Wong (address@hidden) 
wrote:
> 
> Hi all.
> 
> I was thinking about how we could improve network installs via ftp & http. 
> I thought that it might be valuable for us to try to create a spreadsheet 
> of applications from http://www.rule-project.org/en/sw/  I am hoping that 
> network install programs can download this spreadsheet, then use "cut" to 
> parse it, then start downloading the appropriate packages. This would allow 
> the program to always have access to the most up to date list, without 
> having to update the program just for that list.
> 
Eugene,

as it might be evident from the other messages I just posted here, I
am quite melted right now, so I will think over your whole message
when I have recovered some sleep. In the meantime, two questions:

1) when you say "install programs can download this spreadsheet" you
mean from the local server from which they are installing, right? not
from the Internet

2) Couldn't we go one step further (assuming I understood what you
mean) and parse the SW map to generate directly a script with a bunch
of lines "rpm this.X.Y"?

 Ciao,
                Marco

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