[Clipart] Packaging the clipart for Fedora

Nicu Buculei nicu_gfx at nicubunu.ro
Sun May 18 23:50:35 PDT 2008


Jon Phillips wrote:
> Did you guys make progress on this and/or what is the latest?

Sort of... I created the cron job that make a daily snapshot and set it 
up to produce 
http://download.openclipart.org/downloads/daily_SVG_snapshot.tar.bz2

But it wasn't considered acceptable - 
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=433602
"No structure makes this unsuitable for inclusion now. Apart from that
there is no stable URL to refer to."

So I expect it will stay at 0.18 in Fedora until we get some sanity and 
structure, a way to extract useful data.


> On Fri, 2008-02-15 at 17:35 +0100, Daniel Isenmann wrote:
>> On Fri, 15 Feb 2008 18:19:19 +0200
>> Nicu Buculei <nicu_gfx at nicubunu.ro> wrote:
>>
>>> Daniel Isenmann wrote:
>>>> Nicu Buculei wrote:
>>>>> How about us setting a cron job to make a tarball from the entire 
>>>>> "people" directory tree and serve is a downloadable package? (it
>>>>> will lack tags and structure, but is an easy way to serve the
>>>>> images in bulk)
>>>> I'm not using Fedora, but I maintain the openclipart-package for
>>>> Archlinux. I like the idea mentioned by Nicu Buculei to serve a
>>>> newer package (or a way to download all cliparts in sum) of
>>>> openclipart. I would appreciate that. 
>>> Note that a snapshot from "people" directory from ccHost would be 
>>> *complementary* to the old 0.18 release, only a small number of files 
>>> from the old site were imported *manually* in the new site.
>> That would be no problem...There are so many new cliparts on the
>> webpage, which you can just download through the webinterface. It would
>> be really cool, if there is the possibility to download those cliparts
>> from openclipart.org in a whole bunch, even if they have no tags or
>> structure (it's better with it, but not necessary). Even if they are
>> complementary to the 0.18 release, that doesn't matter, just merging
>> them together in one package here for the distro.


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