[haiku-depot-web] Re: Sample Data
- From: Ingo Weinhold <ingo_weinhold@xxxxxx>
- To: haiku-depot-web@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 29 Sep 2013 11:12:09 +0200
On 09/29/2013 10:08 AM, Andrew Lindesay wrote:
It is possibly a silly question, but can somebody (probably Ingo) point
me at the base URL format for the current repository for the nightly
builds?
The base URL for the HaikuPorts package repositories is:
http://haiku-files.org/files/repo/
The current one (hrev46124) for architecture "x86" is under
"9818164862edcbf69404a90267090b9d595908a11941951e904dfc6244c3d566". The
"packages" subdirectory of all repository directories is currently just
a symlink to the same directory [1], which contains all packages in
various versions for all architectures.
Can you also let me know the easiest way to get some sample as-built
".PackageInfo", HPKG and HPKR files?
Actual HPKG and HPKR ("repo") files you can find aplenty on the server.
.PackageInfos as such you won't find easily in the wild, but you can
extract them from the package files.
On Haiku:
package extract the-package.hpkg .PackageInfo
From within a configured Haiku build directory on any supported build
platform:
jam -q run ':<build>package' extract the-package.hpkg .PackageInfo
That reminds me: Have you already thought about how to read package and
repository meta data from the respective files? Writing a parser for the
HPKG and HPKR formats would be quite a bit of work, so I would suggest
to either make use of libpackage (via JNI or JNA) or parse the output of
the "package" and "package_repo" commands. For the latter the output
would need to be canonicalized -- mainly making sure that strings like
the summary and the description are printed in a way such that they
don't make the output ambiguous and that they can be parsed into their
original form again.
CU, Ingo
[1] http://haiku-files.org/files/hpkg/
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