On Fri, 5 Nov 2004, Rob van Nieuwkerk wrote: > On Fri, 5 Nov 2004 03:52:13 +0100 (CET) > Dag Wieers <dag@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > Since I don't know who to address this to, let's address this to all :) > > > > I guess it's time again to ask/beg for making those SPEC files public. All > > of them if possible: Fedora, Raw Hide, RHEL, fedora.us, livna.org. > > > > If you want people making compatible packages, find problems or doing > > general QA, having those SPEC files available instead of SRPMs is crucial. > > I don't want to go download another 5MB to have a 5kB file and see 5 bytes > > changed. > > Recently I noticed this nice site: > > http://www.mirrorservice.org/ > > They let you "peek" inside the content of RPMs (for example, info, > source-files dependencies, spec-files, patches). See for example: > > http://www.mirrorservice.org/sites/download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/development/SRPMS/ > (the right-hand icons get you to the details) > http://www.mirrorservice.org/sites/download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/development/SRPMS/kernel-2.6.9-1.667.src.rpm[peek] Thank you Rob, I knew mirrorservice.org, but I didn't know they offered more functionality than just the mirroring service :) Even though it's more complex, I think we can use this to automate some stuff I required. I'll see if I can set up a service that offers diff's between commits from mirrorservice.org. Bedankt ! -- dag wieers, dag@xxxxxxxxxx, http://dag.wieers.com/ -- [Any errors in spelling, tact or fact are transmission errors]