Re: suggestions needed: woes of extracting /usr/doc/ files

[Craig Small <csmall@scooter.eye-net.com.au>]

James A. Treacy said:
> The lintian repository on master is currently supplying the
> usr/doc/{copyright,changelog.Debian.gz} files for the Packages
> pages. It is just not reliable enough for us(*) so I'm looking
> into extracting the files using a script.
> 
> I'm considering serving the /usr/doc files dynamically.
> This meas ripping the .deb apart (trivial) and extracting
> the /usr/doc (and /usr/share/doc) portions of data.tar.gz.
> Instead of writing them to disc, I was hoping to store
> the information directly in perl. Anyone have a suggestion
> on how to do this?
You get the data.tar.gz file, then run something in perl like:
  $copyright = `tar xfOz data.tar.gz /usr/doc/$package/copyright`;
  $changelog = `tar xfOz data.tar.gz /usr/doc/$package/changelog.Debian.gz`;

etc
The O means send the file to stdout.

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