From: why the lucky stiff <ruby-talk@...>
Date: 2003-06-11T01:36:54+09:00
Subject: Re: raa-install: package list update?

On Tuesday 10 June 2003 09:57 am, Laurent Sansonetti wrote:
>
> Is the remote package list on ``http://narf-lib.sourceforge.net/raa''
> updated periodically?
>

Yes, though the cron schedule has been a bit off lately.

>
> ``raa-install --showall'' shows me 501 entries, but
> ``http://raa.ruby-lang.org/'' tells there is currently 904 registred
> projects.
>

You are only seeing packages that are likely to work with raa-install.  I 
wouldn't suggested doing this, but.. if you run `raa-install 
--showbadpackages', then raa-install will attempt to find out why the package 
isn't displaying.  Beware.  The script will take a long time.

The newest raa-install (in CVS) does display all 904 packages.  It flags 
unsupported entries though:

  ($:~/cvs/raa-install)$ raa-install -s dbi
  Downloading project data
  http://narf-lib.sourceforge.net/raa/raa-xml-compacted.xml.gz
  ...............................
  dadbiz [1]
  dbi-dbrc
  ruby-dbi [1]
  
  [1] The download link for this package is an unsupported URL.

(An idea from Gavin Sinclair.)

A number of new features will make the next version of raa-install much more 
cozy for everyone I believe.

_why