134401 – wishlist: enable acces in the style of http://packages.gentoo.org/category/name

Bug 134401 - wishlist: enable acces in the style of http://packages.gentoo.org/category/name

Summary: wishlist: enable acces in the style of http://packages.gentoo.org/category/name

Status:	RESOLVED WORKSFORME

Alias:	None

Product:	Gentoo Infrastructure
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	[OLD] gpackages (show other bugs)
Hardware:	All Linux

Importance:	Lowest normal (vote)
Assignee:	Gentoo Infrastructure

URL:	http://packages.gentoo.org
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Reported:	2006-05-26 04:03 UTC by Richard Hartmann
Modified:	2007-11-08 07:28 UTC (History)
CC List:	0 users

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Description Richard Hartmann 2006-05-26 04:03:26 UTC

Using a debian-esque style like to access pgo like http://packages.gentoo.org/category/name would make it very fast and easy to access packages you know the full name of. The naming structure of portage is perfectly suited for this scheme already, so why not make use of it?

Apache's mod-rewrite is my suggestion for this task. Just make it match on all category names.

Comment 1 Chris Gianelloni (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2007-09-12 16:46:05 UTC

Reassigning to the main infra group since Marduk is retired.

Comment 2 Robin Johnson archtester

2007-11-08 07:28:32 UTC

New packages2 has this.