New package: dpkg-search
I have written a new package (currently *very* beta) that could
simplify the usual sysadmin question "what package can do X" (let X be: le t
me administrate a network, play multiuser games, etc..) using a package
maintained by myself (remembrance-agent) which helps look for documents
relevant for your work after previously indexing them (using vectorization
of documents, a tool used in IA.. related to my research BTW ;)
As this is something I've had had to do myself a lot of times :
greping the Packages.gz or the available's file, and since I wanted more
than a simple keyword search ... I felt it might be of interest.. I also
think this is a Good Thing (tm) to be in the APT UI (not my implementation,
which is a quick hack, but the idea)
Here it is, I would like some maintainers to try it first.. and get
a taste of what I intend to do (I hope), it is small (3k) since all the
important stuff is provided by remembrance agent (120k).
I will mail a copy of it to those who request it.
templar@jfs:~/debian/dpkg-search$ dpkg-deb --info dpkg-search_0.1-1_i386.deb
new debian package, version 2.0.
size 3934 bytes: control archive= 1092 bytes.
577 bytes, 13 lines control
370 bytes, 6 lines md5sums
92 bytes, 5 lines * postinst #!/bin/sh
549 bytes, 15 lines * prerm #!/bin/sh
Package: dpkg-search
Version: 0.1-1
Section: admin
Priority: optional
Architecture: i386
Depends: remembrance-agent, dialog, perl, libc6
Installed-Size: 24
Maintainer: Javier Fernandez-Sanguino Pen~a <jfs@computer.org>
Description: An interface to find relevant packages in Debian.
This package adds some tools to find relevant packages in Debian using
simple queries, both in natural language and by keywords. It makes uses
of the document-vectoring program remembrance-agent, adding scripts to
make use of it to index the Packages database, and to make queries on to
it.
Regards
Javi
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