Re: Independant (or free) updater ?

[Daniel Veillard <Daniel Veillard w3 org>]

On Sun, Sep 17, 2000 at 11:32:11AM +0200, Philippe Roy wrote:
> 
> > > The 'helix code updater' is a nice sofware.
> > > But, where are non-'helix code' softwares ?
> > > In fact, for this mail I use Balsa (and I like it).
> 
> > I'm sorry, I'm not sure if I understand: do you mean an updater that
> > updates just stock GNOME software instead of software from the Helix Code
> > repository and mirrors?
> 
> Yes ! I never saw 'balsa' informations in 'helix code updater'.
> 
> 'helix code updater' use XML file : 
> 
> exemple for mirrors location : 
> ftp://ftp.helixcode.com/pub/helix/mirrors.xml
> 
> exemple for updates informations for the 'Mandrake-6' distrib :
> ftp://download.sourceforge.net/pub/mirrors/helix/distributions/Mandrake-6/updates.xml
> 
> If these files don't contain 'balsa' news, 'helix code updater' can't tell
> about it.
> I think it's easy to add others XML files for others softwares (defined by
> user).
> I think it's easy to add freshmeat news/update, gtk+ news/update and GNOME
> news/update.

 Have a look at rpmfind tool, I actually already grow a 600MBytes
database of XML metadata on packages.
   http://rpmfind.net/linux/rpm2html/rpmfind.html

Daniel

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