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Add F-Droid as a PURL type

Open armijnhemel opened this issue 2 years ago • 3 comments

it might be useful to add a PURL type for F-Droid. Currently they have ~8000 packages or so, with corresponding source code.

armijnhemel avatar Aug 27 '21 14:08 armijnhemel

This is at https://www.f-droid.org/

pombredanne avatar Aug 28 '21 07:08 pombredanne

The XML release format is described at:

https://f-droid.org/en/docs/Build_Metadata_Reference/

and in the XML file itself:

https://f-droid.org/repo/index.xml

(warning: might take some time to load)

armijnhemel avatar May 12 '22 12:05 armijnhemel

This PR is adding fdroid support in the purldb at https://github.com/nexB/purldb/pull/10 and becomes a good way to specify the fdroid purl type

pombredanne avatar Dec 06 '22 10:12 pombredanne