On Wed, Aug 06, 2008 at 03:35:45PM -0400, David Malcolm wrote:
> I've been working on a new web-based tool for analyzing Fedora: rpmgrok
>
> It digests built RPMs, analysing the metadata and payload, and stores
> the results in a database. There's a web UI for viewing the data, an
> XML-RPC interface for querying it, and a command-line tool for using the
> XML-RPC interface.
>
> I've got a prototype running on:
>
http://publictest7.fedoraproject.org/rpmgrok
>
> More info (e.g. source code) can be seen at
>
https://fedorahosted.org/rpmgrok
>
> The idea is to provide a new way for Fedora developers, testers, and
> other enthusiasts to track various things across the entire
> distribution, without having to have a full tree installed. It's
> probably usable by other Linux distributions.
I like the part with the "Errors and warnings from rpmlint". I can
imagine that someone that's say an expert on "invalid-desktopfile"
issues could now dig into this much easier. Very nice!
Unfortunately the db doesn't capture the errors from
desktop-file-validate itself. I wonder if there's a way to do this.
IIRC rpmlint doesn't emit this output anywhere.
(fwiw all these tests were done with desktop-file-utils-0.10-7)
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