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Re: rpm meta-database
On Fri, May 01, 1998 at 01:18:30PM +0000, Peter L. Peres wrote:
> No, but if you save them in a document marked up as HTML and place it in
What's wrong with a flat text file!? it's not as if there's too much
info. I just 'less ~/rpms', then /<filename>, then ?^Name . That's
enough for me, buddy :-)
> same file. As long as the database is text-based, a gawk/perl program
> can serve queries. I have a script that catalogs a CD this way, but I'm
> afraid it is not portable.
perl, thank you very much; but I still think having it locally as html
is just an overkill. I might do a fancy cgi with updates and spiffy stuff
if I have time, but unless it's made public, what's the point?
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