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Other License:  Copyright (C) 1998-2002 Daniel Veillard.  All Rights Reserved.

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Package: rpm3html
System name: rpm2html
Type: non-GNU

Description:
The rpm2html utility automatically generates web pages that describe a
set of RPM packages.

I'm going to continue mantenance of rpm2html so users (from now I'll call them 
package maintainers) can maintain RPM repositories on the web in human readable 
form with easy navigation. RPM repositories can be small (just one or few 
packages not found in common distributions maintained by their developer or 
volunteer), medium (set of packages meant as update for some other "full 
distribution") or big (full set of RPM packages for one or even more 
"distributions").

Other users of some RPM based OS can then thanks to that "web presence" find 
out RPM repositories using common search engines or other navigation techniques 
and then locate, download and use published packages.

The goal is not to provide yet another tool to run repositories for fully 
automatic updates for "client" computers.


Function of rpm2html is to identify the dependencies between various packages, 
and to find the package(s) that will provide the resources needed to install a 
given package. Rpm2html analyzes the provides and requires of the given set of 
RPMs, and then shows the dependency cross-references using hypertext links. 
Rpm2html can also dump the metadata associated with RPM files into standard RDF 
files.

Rpm2html can be configured to run as cron-job and then package maintainer is 
supposed to just upload RPM packages to server and then concentrate on more 
usefull task than to edit HTML pages to indicate new packages and so on.

Plain HTML is used as output of rpm2html.

Source code URL: http://rpmfind.net/linux/rpm2html/download.html

Other Software Required:
Libraries from 'rpm' are needed to read content of RPM packages.

GnuPG may be used to enhance support for signed RPM packages.

Other Comments:
Original author of rpm2html tool has stopped maintenance of this tool.

While I run small-to-medium RPM repository using this tool and while there are 
also another user of it I volunteered to continue the maintenance.


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