On Mon, Apr 23, 2001 at 11:45:08AM -0400, Albert den Haan wrote:
> My question
> -----------
>
> The LSB has a MySQL data base of the files and commands that are part of a
> compliant implementation. I hope to use this DB to autogenerate the
> depends: list of the meta-package.
>
> However either I am missing something or this is a compute intensive job.
> For example if I am searching for the package that contains the command
> "tr" then I search for "dpkg --search bin/tr". But that gets me
> $ dpkg -S bin/tr
> xscreensaver: /usr/X11R6/bin/triangle
> shellutils: /bin/true
> textutils: /usr/bin/tr
> traceroute: /usr/sbin/traceroute
> ispell: /usr/bin/tryaffix
> xscreensaver: /usr/X11R6/bin/truchet
> groff: /usr/bin/troff
> netbase: /usr/bin/tracepath6
> tree: /usr/bin/tree
> netbase: /usr/bin/tracepath
> netbase: /usr/bin/traceroute6
> transfig: /usr/X11R6/bin/transfig
> tcpd: /usr/sbin/try-from
>
> AFICT dpkg --search does not honor $:
> $ dpkg -S bin/tr\$
> dpkg: *bin/tr$* not found
>
> but grep does:
> $ dpkg -S bin/tr | grep "bin/tr$"
> textutils: /usr/bin/tr
>
> I can then use the same techniques as dpkg-shlibdeps (potato version :) to
> find the package name and put that in my depends list.
>
> But, I have to repeat this for every bin/* and lib/* entity mandated in the
> LSB DB. It takes a while. Is there a faster way? I've tried a few bulk
> searches by asking dpkg -S to find more than one file but there are some
> common prefixes in the LSB mandated commands too :(.
ok,
1.) get debian/dists/potato/Contents-i386.gz from a debian mirror
2.) unzip it
3.) grep "bin/tr " Contents-i386.gz
usr/bin/tr base/textutils
4.) repeat 3.
grep is fast and you search in all debian packages and not only in the
installed packages.
> Also, how do I query for diverted entities like awk?
Oh. this is IMHO a problem.
Gruss
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