[packman] packman future

[Marc Schiffbauer]

* Henne Vogelsang schrieb am 09.01.03 um 19:24 Uhr:
> Hi,
> 
> On Thursday, January 09, 2003 at 18:02:00, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
> > Am Don, 2003-01-09 um 16.59 schrieb Henne Vogelsang:
> > > On Thursday, January 09, 2003 at 15:17:26, Hendrik Muhs wrote:
> > > 
> > > > 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 
> > > 
> > > I see the webinterface and the database marc manages not only as an
> > > "fill in information and forget" tool. I see it also as a kind of
> > > quality assurance. 
> >
> > Hmm - I don't.
> > 
> > => To me, its the primary obstacle to contribute rpms and more
> > bureaucracy than actually being useful.
> > 
> > > If publishing a package boils down to spit it on a
> > > directory somewhere and some automated script does anything else then, it
> > > will infect quality.
> >
> > Bummer - Actually, I don't see any relation of this form to quality.
> 
> Ok not from that form but from a more guided way of publishing than just
> put the packaghe somewhere.
> 
> A fully autmated system that just reads packages and put the information
> into a database, like Hendrik suggested, would be a drawback imho.
> 
> I think its something in between that will be the best thing.
> 

ACK. Or maybe the thing with special defined spec-file tags. But
these will have to be strictly defined.

> > What I am actually missing is kind of an "upload-script" that can be
> > prepared off-line. Something like an form to be filled out which then
> > installs everything into the appropriate location on Marc's server.
> > 
> > [Basic outline: Write an xml-form which shall accompany any rpm, upload
> > this form and rpm to Marc's server, and run a script there to interpret
> > this form and to install the files into the appropriate
> > locations/database etc.]

Hm. I do like the spec file version much more.

> 
> Sounds like a second specfile :)
> 

ACK :)

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