[csw-maintainers] Small pkgdb-web prettification

[Maciej (Matchek) Bliziński]

2013/4/3 Peter FELECAN <pfelecan at opencsw.org>:
> Quite useful. However, link the package to the description otherwise you
> have a cycle... e.g.
>
> http://buildfarm.opencsw.org/pkgdb/catalognames/a2ps/ to
> http://buildfarm.opencsw.org/pkgdb/srv4/0081cafba415a45801d8191ebdbfee56/ to
> http://buildfarm.opencsw.org/pkgdb/catalognames/a2ps/

This loop is intentional, the link back to a2ps is a link to the
catalogname, because the thing under link is a catalogname.

> Also, back-links would be useful.

You mean, some sort of a common navbar? It's probably doable with
includes, but the templates we're using are Cheetah templates[1] and
their "#include" seems messed up to me. I asked about it on their
mailing list:

http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.python.cheetah/2825

...and got zero answers. I think that if we want to improve our
templates, we should switch a different engine with sane #include, for
example jinja2. In the meantime, everybody's welcome to tweak the
existing templates.

For information how to set up pkgdb and releases, see the README
file[2] (I just updated it).

By the way, if anyone comes up with a way to set these scripts up
using lighttpd, please contribute your setup instructions! It would be
a better fit on small setups like virtual machines at home.

Maciej

[1] https://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/gar/browser/csw/mgar/gar/v2/lib/web/templates
[2] https://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/gar/browser/csw/mgar/gar/v2/lib/web/README