rpmseek.com - New rpm search engine for the Linux world [LWN.net]

From:		Marc Rendenbach <suppressed>
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Subject:		Press release: rpmseek.com - New rpm search engine for the Linux world
Date:		Mon, 09 Dec 2002 13:12:47 +0100

Press release

rpmseek.com - New rpm search engine for the Linux world

Most major Linux distributions facilitate a bottom-of-the-line 
administration of software by using the RedHat® Package Manager. The 
required rpm packages are available on the Internet multifariously.

The new Linux portal www.rpmseek.com offers users of the Linux operating 
system a convenient search engine for rpm packages. The packages can be 
searched by various criterions, such as package name, file name, 
distribution, keywords, dependencies or files that a package contains. 
Dependecies between packages are resolved by cross references.

For every rpm package there are numerous detailed informations 
collected, links to different mirror servers are listed for the download 
in geographically arranged order.

Another highlight is the classification of all rpm packages into 
categories. This way, a special software type or functionality can be 
found by browsing the tree structure of the categories.

More distributions are added continuously. Moreover, discussion groups 
and search facilities for FAQs, Howtos, Man Pages, RFCs etc. will by 
added soon.

The portal's target is to provide a central contact point for software, 
documentations, questions and answers around the open source operating 
system Linux.

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rpmseek.com - New rpm search engine for the Linux

Posted Dec 10, 2002 5:33 UTC (Tue) by mikal (guest, #8473) [Link]

How is this different to http://www.rpmfind.net, which has been around for ages?

rpmseek.com - New rpm search engine for the Linux

Posted Dec 10, 2002 10:31 UTC (Tue) by kay (subscriber, #1362) [Link]

only a few topics after a short visit:

- you can search and browse
- Portal style
- german (I'm from germany)
- ...

not a replacement, but an alternative

Kay

apt support?

Posted Dec 10, 2002 14:59 UTC (Tue) by ahornby (subscriber, #3366) [Link]

Do they provide apt-rpm support?

I find sites such as freshrpms.net very useful due to they way apt auto downloads/installs dependencies.

I'd like Red Hat to include apt support - the up2date system seems very closed (as does the server side of ximian's red-carpet).