Re: Auto extraction of names from the LSB spec sources.
Albert,
This sort of things as done in a couple of places under the src tree.
It might be easiest to just adapt some existing script, and pull the data
directly from the DB instead of having to parse through a lot of other stuff.
What lists do you need to see? a list of library, and a list of commands?
On Mon, 16 Apr 2001, Albert den Haan wrote:
> As part of my lowest common denominator packaging trial implementation I am
> currently in the process of building a meta package that would depend on
> all the packages in the Debian Woody release that would be needed to say
> "This installation is as LSB compliant as we can make it, modulo stuff
> mentioned in /usr/doc/lsb-spec-v##"
>
> I have had some success turning a list of command and library names into
> the names of the packages that were used to install them. This sort of
> thing is straightforward in both the dpkg and rpm package managers.
>
> However I want to determine the lists of files to search for directly from
> the specifications softcopies via scripting. This would allow new package
> lists to be quickly and reliable generated as the LSB matures.
>
> Right now the SGML markup does not seem to have any good indicators that
> are trivially parsable as "This is the invocation name of a manadatory
> command" or "this is the filename of a library".
>
> Should we add to the markup of the spec to make automated processing easy?
> What should we add. Are there any quick and dirty hacks out there
> sufficient to my limited needs?
>
> Albert.
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