Project pkgs.org
Hi
Let me introduce a project for finding, analizing and downloading Linux software and packages.
The project provides next features:
* Large, daily updated database with RPM and DEB packages for well-known repositories of the Fedora, CentOS, RHEL, Debian, Ubuntu and OpenSuse distributions.
* Packages browser by distribution, repository, packages group with the filtering support.
* Detailed packages information (name, version, description, architecture, files, requires, etc.).
* Detailed packages statistics by project, distribution, repository and packages group.
* HTTP/FTP/RSYNC mirrors lists for the packages downloading.
* Packages search by name, summary, description, requires, provides, files and directories.
* URL shortcuts for the direct packages search.
* Effective site navigation.
* XHTML/CSS markup.
The project is still under the development.
Project site: http://pkgs.org/
Comments
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What's the point of a site like that? Isn't it much easier,faster and simpler to use the distro repositories?0
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marc wrote:What's the point of a site like that? Isn't it much easier,faster and simpler to use the distro repositories?
I disagree, this may be a useful method to locate packages that are not located on official repos, which would be housed by a community or individuals. Although they would not necessarily be trusted as much the option should still exist.
Now if they can add slackware repos to the list I would like it more.0 -
mfillpot wrote:Now if they can add slackware repos to the list I would like it more.0
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I just saw this announcement on the Fedora-devel mailing list. I'm wondering what the response will be there.
I think that having access to apps that aren't in each specific distro's repo's can be helpful. Although I wonder how many problems will arise when the app from one repo is used with another distro. An example might be how some Ubuntu apps would not place nice with pure Debian based distros a while back (or maybe they still don't play nice).
I always look forward to new projects, I guess we'll see how this one goes.0 -
Thank you for that inclusion, if possible a build script repo index may also be useful for users on multiple architectures.0
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I'm still curious about the response. I was incorrect yesterday when I said I saw in on the fedora-devel mailing list, it was in the fedora forum, where at the moment it hasn't drawn much attention. I still think it's interesting.0
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Goineasy9 wrote:I'm still curious about the response. I was incorrect yesterday when I said I saw in on the fedora-devel mailing list, it was in the fedora forum, where at the moment it hasn't drawn much attention. I still think it's interesting.
I still think it is not the way to go. The proper way of installing a thing that is not provided by your distro (and therefore you package manager) is to use statically linked programs so you don't run into the famous dependency hell(that is if you are not able to produce a proper package for your own use[offtopic:that is why I love Archlinux so much]). I still remember back in 1998 when you wanted to install something on a system without a package manager that took care of the dependencies. In fact, apt-get made so famous because of it's ability to resolve dependencies0 -
mfillpot wrote:Now if they can add slackware repos to the list I would like it more.[/quote]
Slackware repositories are indexed!0 -
The official repos are indexed, but I know that there are many unofficial repos that are not that easy to locate which can become more accessible after inclusion in a multi distro index.0
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mfillpot wrote:The official repos are indexed, but I know that there are many unofficial repos that are not that easy to locate which can become more accessible after inclusion in a multi distro index.
Besides official Slackware repositories (Extra, Pasture, Patches, Slackware, Testing) also indexed third-party repos:
* GSB - GNOME SlackBuild
http://gnomeslackbuild.org/
* Linux Packages
http://www.linuxpackages.net/
* Slacky - The Italian Slackware Community
http://slacky.eu/
* rworkman's Slackware Packages
http://rlworkman.net/pkgs/
Do you know other famous third-party repositories with pre-builded packages?0 -
I know that most of the slackbuild.org team keeps their own repos for their own scripts, you already have Robbie Workman, but I know for a fact that vbatts, alienbob and others have repos available.
With the new addition of a git retrieval method on slackbuilds, many other maintainers are setting up repos for their own build scripts and packages, so the list will definitely grow.0 -
mfillpot wrote:I know that most of the slackbuild.org team keeps their own repos for their own scripts, you already have Robbie Workman, but I know for a fact that vbatts, alienbob and others have repos available.0
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Goineasy9 wrote:Although I wonder how many problems will arise when the app from one repo is used with another distro. An example might be how some Ubuntu apps would not place nice with pure Debian based distros a while back (or maybe they still don't play nice).0
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jabirali wrote:Goineasy9 wrote:Although I wonder how many problems will arise when the app from one repo is used with another distro. An example might be how some Ubuntu apps would not place nice with pure Debian based distros a while back (or maybe they still don't play nice).
In my humble opinion that is exactly what you should *not* do on your system. That is like hoping to get problems on your system0 -
Well, I basically agree with Marc, but an app database across distro's still is interesting to me. I wouldn't suggest it's use for installing apps by newcomers, but it could still have it's uses. Just like Whohas (I think that's the command) in Debian that allows you to see what distro contains a certain app, has been useful to me in the past. And come to think of it, I've visited rpmfind a couple of times, it's been useful also.0
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marc wrote:In my humble opinion that is exactly what you should *not* do on your system.
But I fully agree that it's an ugly hack, and should be avoided if possible. I think it's been 6-7 years since last time I tried it0 -
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