grep-ing available made easy
Hello,
I have just finished the first 90% (that is, I have a decently working
beta version, but some things are still suboptimal) of something that
could be vaguely described as
Package: debcrawler
Section: admin
Priority: optional
Version: 0.19
Depends: boa | httpd, lynx | www-browser, dpkg (>= 1.4), dpkg (<< 1.5)
Description: browse your Debian binary packages via WWW
debCrawler (completely unrelated to a well-known web indexing service)
is a small tool to search the local database of installable Debian
*.deb software packages for various criteria and display the
results through a web browser. It does not attempt to cover package
management. The output is formatted in a fashion that aims at readability
on several different web browsers, including lynx.
.
debCrawler is a CGI application, so a http daemon with CGI support
must be set up on the local machine. Note that dhttpd does *not* support
CGIs (that means you have to use another httpd implementation).
It was inspired by hours of screen-staring in front of dselect,
some grep/sed/perl orgies with "available" and, of course,
<http://www.debian.org/distrib/packages>.
I'd be glad if some of you would try it and send me comments and bugs.
I'd be even more glad if somebody could package it (I am no Debian
developer yet, there are some technical problems, and I don't have the
time to overcome any of these two obstacles at the moment).
You can get it at
<http://fs.math.uni-frankfurt.de/~brill/debcrawler-0.19.tar.gz>
Thanks
Bj"orn Brill <brill@fs.math.uni-frankfurt.de>
Frankfurt am Main, Germany
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