Re: dselect (or apt) wish list
On Tue, 10 Nov 1998, Zack Brown wrote:
> 4) It would be great to have a utility that searched my .dpkg/ tree and
> identified any debs for which newer versions have already been downloaded.
> That way I could delete the old ones and save space.
Are there .lsm's for each .deb in the ftp server? You could write a
script that took the lsm for installed packages, reads the name
(along the lines of this hypothetical: "kde-base_1.0" becomes "kde-base")
and searches for that name in the ftp site. If the version number is
greater (kde-base_1.1), queue it for download. Your script could prompt
for you to replace the files after download (or could read a config file),
and could use quotas, a config file, or df output to insure it didn't do
any damage.
I'm kinda interested in working on a script to handle something like this
(perl or java, I'm no great programmer) -- if anyone, who knows a bit
about the ftp site layout for debian packages, wants to lend a hand &
provide some specifics for me, I'd be happy to write something (not that
others couldn't do better, but I suppose we all can contribute).
> 8) Last but not least, during the "select" phase, when searching for
> packages, only package names are searchable. I would really like to search
> descriptions as well.
Package categories (Opt/News, or whatever) are also in the search list.
> I hope no one takes offense to these suggestions. I'm just trying to help.
>
> Zack
cool ideas, Zack.
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