From: Massimiliano Mirra <list@...>
Date: 2002-03-16T19:13:32+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] rpkg 0.3.1 Small bug and a question

On Sat, Mar 16, 2002 at 12:41:39PM +0900, Chris Gehlker wrote:
> You might have fixed this. My browser doesn't like your site and the RRA
> only had 3.0. 

But the RAA points to a .tar.gz on the same site.  There is no
associated page, maybe your browser didn't like that. ;-)

> But anyway the the line in rpkg-util that reads:
> 
> f.puts "source = #{source}"
> 
> Should read:
> 
> f.puts "source = #{source} #{dist} #{section}"

Argh!  No, I had not fixed it, and once in a while forgetting to post
the url for downloading was a good thing. :-) It's fixed now, thanks a
lot.

> I'm curious about the line in config.rb that reads:
> load_config('/etc/RPkgrc')
> 
> Is the RPkgrc something that you plan to install in the future? Will it
> supplant ~/.rpkgrc ?

No, it was just supposed to hold defaults.  As you can see, ~/.rpkgrc
is read immediately thereafter and thus overrides them.  It should be
Config::CONFIG['sysconfdir'], really, as there is no /etc under
Windows anyway.

Anyway, I plan to shed much hardcoding, above all those
Config::CONFIG's, and allow packagers to fill whatever content
directories they want as long as such directories are also configured
on the installing user's systems.  This would make rpkg more useful
for general (i.e. not necessarily Ruby-related) packaging and provide
more flexibility for us.



On another note... anybody less web-challenged than me would be
interested in building web access to the package base?  I'm thinking
about something like http://packages.debian.org.  Basically it should
consist of reading a user query, searching an entry in a text file,
and returning a page based on that entry.


Massimiliano