Check All Packages In Repository
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Hello Lintian Mantainers,
I am currently working on trying to create a website similar to [1].
However, this site would be for packages in the four Ubuntu
repositories (main, restricted, universe, and multiverse). I am
already aware of [2], but Lars, the person who created that site, no
longer has the scripts. He has given me the go ahead to try and
recreate them. The part that I am currently struggling with is
figuring out how to run lintian against all of the packages in the
repositories. So far, the only method that I have come up with
involves downloading all of the packages in a certain repository by
parsing the Packages.gz file, and then downloading all of the packages
to a directory. I could then use lintian with the --dist option to run
it on all of the files in the repository. This method is not very
efficient. It would take a long time to download all of the files, and
it would also take up a lot of space on my hard drive. I'm hoping
there is a more practical way to accomplish this. Once I figure out
how to run lintian against all of the packages in the repository, it
won't be that difficult to generate the html report pages. Any help
you can provide will be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Nathan Handler (nhandler)
[1] http://lintian.debian.org/
[2] http://people.ubuntu.com/~liw/lintian/
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