Re: Script idea...
Ender Wigin wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I just (couple of weeks realy) upgraded to Hamm.
> After the upgrade I was left with a bunch of apps that core dumped ...(IE:
> ncftp) before I upgraded them to the libc6 version... So today in math
> class I thought up a neat script idea that could help others in my
> plight... (note extenuating curcumstances in my case) Basicly my idea is
> to run "ldd * | grep 'libc.so.5' | tail libc5apps" on the bin directorys
> ...now for the questions. one: I realy think that there is probaly a
> better way to do this ... (Ideas?) Two: I would like to somehow link this
> to the Contents file so that indivigual executibles are not listed as
> things to upgrade, but the packages ... IE step one get list of lib5 apps,
> two grep aginst contents to get a package name providing that app. only I
> don't know how to do step 2 execpt manualy ... any ideas here ... I figure
> one of you perl gurus would know how to do this ... ?
>
I did something similar when I was converting from a.out to an elf
system. It would be a very simple matter to adapt this to searching for
libc5 dependencies.
Enjoy.
--BEGIN----------------------------------------------------------------
#!/bin/sh
#
# findaout - Find a.out executables and libraries on a Debian system
#
# Written by: Behan Webster <behanw@verisim.com>
#
FILE=$HOME/aout.txt
DIRS="/ -xdev"
if [ $# -eq 1 ] ; then
FILE=$1
elif [ $# -gt 1 ] ; then
echo "Usage: `basename $0` [filename]"
exit 1
fi
if [ -f $FILE ] ; then
echo "Saving old $FILE files..."
savelog -c 8 -m 644 $FILE >/dev/null
fi
echo "Putting list of a.out packages in $FILE..."
(
(
nice -n +18 find $DIRS -type f -perm +111 | xargs file
) | egrep 'Linux/i386.*MAGIC' | cut -d: -f1 | xargs dpkg -S
) | cut -d: -f1 | sort -u > $FILE
echo "Done."
---END-----------------------------------------------------------------
--
Behan Webster mailto:behanw@verisim.com
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