Re: Package of non-development scripts?

[Craig Sanders <cas@taz.net.au>]

On Tue, Jul 17, 2001 at 05:39:37AM -0400, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> Is anyone currently maintaining a package of Debian-specific scripts
> that are not packaging-related (i.e., not devscripts)?  Quite a few
> useful tidbits pass through this list, and it would be nice to collect
> all of those small scripts into one package.  If nobody is collecting
> these, I'll likely start doing it, and package the result.
>
> Here's one that I use from time to time to see which packages are
> taking up the most disk space on my system.  It's quite fast, thanks
> to grep-dctrl and perl, but doesn't fit in any package that I could
> find.
> 
> == dpkg-pigs ==
> #!/bin/sh
> 
> grep-status -nsInstalled-size,Package -F Status ' installed' \
> | perl -p00l12 -e 's/\n/ /' \
> | sort -rn

i also have scripts dpkg-hold to mark package(s) as held from the
command line (and variants to unhold them and purge them).

a package called debian-utils or dpkg-utils or similar would be good for
scripts like these.

and perhaps my dlocate should be folded into that package....it's tiny
and doesn't really need a package of it's own.


craig

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