search_packages.pl?
Hey all,
After many days of frustration, I finally managed to get my
debbugs installation up and running, and I'm now doing the final tweaks
and compatability changes before I package it up and put it into
production.
One thing that I'm wondering about is the "package page" which
debbugs seems to want to use. If you look at the list of bugs for a
particular package using the web interface, at the top of the screen there
is a link to visit the "package page" for this particular package, which,
by default, sends you to packages.debian.org/package-name. If you take the
link, you end up getting to a page on debian that uses a cgi script
"search_packages.pl". Obviously, since I'm using a non-official package in
my local test environment, the script comes up telling me that no such
package could be found. If you do the same thing with a _real_ package
(using debian's debbugs web interface, for instance) then you get a nice
little page with links to the various versions that this package has.
So I guess the question is, what is this cgi script, and/or how
can I reproduce it? Or is there any other way to get this functionality
for my own installation? I know the script isn't included in the debbugs
package, and I suspect that it is something the folks at debian made for
themselves, although I could be wrong. It's always possible, though, for
me to write a simple script that would output the control file from all of
our custom packages into a directory, and point my installation to that
folder...
Thanks for your help and insight, everybody. :)
// Jonathan R. Lynch
// WVU LCSEE Systems
// mad pwner of noobs
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