[packman] packman future

[Waldemar Brodkorb]

Hi Hendrik,,
Hendrik Muhs wrote,

> Hi,
> 
> english because CC
> 
> We have talked about it several times (Henne, me and maybe some others).
> 
> Now that the hardware problems are solved for some time, I would like to 
> restart the discussion about future enhancements for packman.
> 
> 1. We sholud become more international.
> 	than Karol and some others can contribute.
> 		(http://sourceforge.net/projects/suserpm/)

Good idea.

> 2.  Is the very complicated web-interface really necessary???
> 	all the information we have to fill in can be easily extracted from the 			
> 	rpm-Package, why not a automatic script, which runs as cron job every day 		
> 	and/or can be started by the web-interface for urgent fixes 

You're completely right. I think this would be a very good addition
to Packman. 

> 3.  specfile database
> 	for internal use it would be helpful to have a specfile-database somewhere 	 		
> 	for all our packages, in a private dir on the server or via CVS(via the 		
> 	SF-account)

CVS via Marc's server would be a good idea, too.

> Any comments?
> 
> I offer my help for all the 3 topics.

Send patches! :)
I think Marc will be very happy about this.
I think starting with point two would be the best,
because Marc is working on point one, if I remember correctly.

bye
  Waldemar

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