On Sat, Jul 26, 2008 at 21:27, Tim Post <echo@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi Richard, > > On Sat, 2008-07-26 at 15:07 +0100, Richard Ash wrote: > > > Such a look up table would be priceless, I think :) I have had zero > luck > > > in finding one. > > > > A compiled table would be large, cumbersome and perennially out of date. > > What you could do would be to associate each library with it's home page > > relatively easily (in 99% of cases. A few are orphaned etc, but most > > have a home on the web somewhere). > > Armed with that you should be able to search the host distribution's > > package databases to locate the available packages. > > I am working on using Autoconf as a universal installer for GNUPanel, a > free web hosting control panel. > > We have very little code that actually has to be compiled, however we > depend on several dozen packages that must come from the distribution. > As we evolve, we'll surely depend on more. > > Rather than maintain a version for each distribution, I hope to just > write macros that output pre-installation scripts. Sounds more like when you make a plugin available, you also port the plugged-in module to the target. Alternatively, to try a slackware-on-the-fly, the URL pattern: http://freshmeat.net/projects-xml/{proj}/{proj}.xml ie: http://freshmeat.net/projects-xml/apache/apache.xml http://freshmeat.net/projects-xml/nagios/nagios.xml These seem to reveal URLs which redirect to the actual downloads; some are populated, some are not. Dependencies seem sometimes given. Seems the maintainer to an enthusiast maintains the accuracy of this data, so it would be more up-to-date, but not something you can control. Watch your User-Agent on these URLs, and cache them locally to be polite :) (Freshmeat hosts an RSS which can be parsed to signal an update-event for your cache, I would recomment that as an feed for QA before Production to maintain coherence) I still agree with the other posters that this is a dangerous ( == support issues and unknown breakage) path to take, but it's all yours, and maybe you'll show it to be not-so-scary. Allan -- allanc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx "金鱼" http://linkedin.com/in/goldfish please, no proprietary attachments (http://tinyurl.com/cbgq)
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