Re: Debian as a CORBA component

[Colin Walters <walters@debian.org>]

Ok, just to show how cool this is, I've set up a two-week old snapshot
of the archive database on my box (monk.debian.net), and I have a
publically-accessible package database server running there.

Here's what you need to do to run my "madison" client on your box:

$ apt-get install python-orbit
$ mkdir ~/madison && cd ~/madison
$ for x in Debian Bugs Packages; do
  wget -O $x.idl http://cvs.verbum.org/debian/packages.d.o-ng/idl/$x.idl?rev=HEAD&content-type=text/vnd.viewcvs-markup ; done
$ wget http://web.verbum.org/~walters/debian/corba/madison.py

And here's an example usage:

walters@space-ghost> ./madison.py crack-attack binary
retrieving IOR from http://web.verbum.org/~walters/debian/corba/ftpmaster.ior
got ftpmaster: <Debian.FTPMaster instance at 0x1008f3a4>
got 11 pkg objects
alpha : 1.1.3-2 | testing, unstable | main | Colin Walters <walters@debian.org>
hppa : 1.1.3-2 | testing, unstable | main | Colin Walters <walters@debian.org>
arm : 1.1.3-2 | testing, unstable | main | Colin Walters <walters@debian.org>
i386 : 1.1.3-2 | testing, unstable | main | Colin Walters <walters@debian.org>
m68k : 1.1.3-2 | testing, unstable | main | Colin Walters <walters@debian.org>
mips : 1.1.3-2 | testing, unstable | main | Colin Walters <walters@debian.org>
mipsel : 1.1.3-2 | testing, unstable | main | Colin Walters <walters@debian.org>
powerpc : 1.1.3-2 | testing, unstable | main | Colin Walters <walters@debian.org>
sparc : 1.1.3-2 | testing, unstable | main | Colin Walters <walters@debian.org>
s390 : 1.1.3-2 | testing, unstable | main | Colin Walters <walters@debian.org>
ia64 : 1.1.3-2 | testing, unstable | main | Colin Walters <walters@debian.org>
walters@space-ghost> 

Have fun!  

(P.S. If this is abused, I'll just take it down)