[csw-maintainers] web visibility of packages

[Maciej Bliziński]

2011/8/15 Ben Walton <bwalton at opencsw.org>:
> Excerpts from Maciej Bliziński's message of Sun Aug 07 05:38:27 -0400 2011:
>
> Hi Maciej,
>
>> {"maintainer_full_name": null, "version_string":
>> "1.8.7p334,REV=2011.03.24", "basename":
>> "ruby18-1.8.7p334,REV=2011.03.24-SunOS5.9-sparc-CSW.pkg.gz",
>> "maintainer_email": "bwalton at opencsw.org", "mtime": "2011-04-01
>> 17:42:37", "file_basename":
>> "ruby18-1.8.7p334,REV=2011.03.24-SunOS5.9-sparc-CSW.pkg.gz", "arch":
>> "sparc", "osrel": "SunOS5.9", "size": 1365872, "md5_sum":
>> "688d3a5b038d172a36a4cba30272441f", "pkgname": "CSWruby18", "rev":
>> "2011.03.24", "filename_arch": "sparc", "version":
>> "1.8.7p334,REV=2011.03.24", "catalogname": "ruby18"}
>
> I'd like to get more information than what is currently available.
> I suspect that this will require a schema change and thus a full
> re-index of the package tree.
>
> The current database table presented at www/packages stores:
>
> $software
> $pkgname
> $desc
> $version
> $vendorurl
> $email
> $maintlogin
> $repourl
>
> The things that I'm missing are $vendorurl and $repourl.  Is it
> possible to extend pkgdb such that this is collected?  It would save
> having to fetch each updated package, unroll it and extract the info
> from it directly.  As the pkgdb rest calls will already be expensive,
> I'd like to avoid this additional overhead if possible.
>
> What do you think?

Done, vendor url and repository url are now in the JSON data
structure. See the commit for details.

http://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/gar/changeset/15341

Maciej