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I rarely use a couple of these scripts. If you do and you see
a problem please file a bug or email me or it will probably go
unnoticed.
lynx is the recommended browser for the scripts. The output
can sometimes look crappy in other browsers. If lynx isn't
your normal default you can set it for just these scripts with
the SSBROWSER environment variable.
searchgeo
Geocrawler archives many Debian lists. It's often faster than
lists.debian.org.
diffdirs
using with FileRunner
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I have the following in FileRunner's config file so that
diffdirs is called with the Diff button:
set config(cmd,diff) {dodiff {%s} {%s}}
dodiff is this shell script:
#!/bin/sh
DIFFDIRS=tkdiff diffdirs -s "$@"
exit 1
The non-zero exit makes FileRunner put the result in its error
window. This is a little messy but seems the best way to go
without hacking FileRunner.
using with Worker (a DirOpus-style directory utility)
-----------------
'in terminal'
diffdirs {uF} {ouF} |less
ppack
-D|R
----
The -D and -R options showing the depends/reverse depends
trees are a gimmick really. -D uses "apt-cache depends"
output and if there are alternatives, takes the last one.
Also if it depends on a virtual package, just the virtual
package name is printed rather than picking a package that
provides it.
For example, debhelper:
debhelper's Depends line:
Depends: perl5 | perl (>= 5.004), fileutils (>= 4.0-2.1), \
file (>= 3.23-1), dpkg-dev (>= 1.7.0), lynx
$ apt-cache depends debhelper
|Depends: <perl5>
perl-5.005
perl-5.6
perl-5.004
Depends: perl
Depends: fileutils
Depends: file
Depends: dpkg-dev
Depends: lynx
lynx-ssl
$ ppack -D debhelper 1
|- dpkg-dev
|- file
|- fileutils
|- lynx
|- perl
It was easy to implement this way and it's not clear if much
is gained by following the first alternative instead, or by
following all alternatives, which would be easy to do as
well. The same for picking a package that provides for the
virtual package instead of just printing the virtual package
name.
If you've installed a package since your last update, this
will run about 5x faster if you "apt-get update" first.
-ch
---
This compares the package names in the current Packages files in
/var/state/apt/lists against a list of packages from the previous
Packages files for a distribution, showing which packages were
added and removed.
This is probably most useful when run once a day after root
runs "apt-get update".
"ppack -P '?'" gives an explanation of selecting patterns to key
on different distros. Assuming you track unstable, the APT-0.4
packages at klecker.debian.org/~jgg, testing & progeny this
wrapper would work,
#!/bin/sh
for i in unstable testing jgg progeny _stable
do
/usr/bin/ppack -ch $i
done
The save names (in ~/.changed-pkgs/) are created from the
arguments so you'll want to pick unique strings for the
Packages files you want to track and stick with them.
APT
---
ppack is most useful with APT >= 0.4. This APT allows you
to pin distributions / releases so that you can have their
Packages files but not have to worry about having an unwanted
package installed during upgrade. If you run testing the
following would allow you to track unstable as well:
/etc/apt/sources.list
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deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian unstable main contrib non-free
deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian testing main contrib non-free
/etc/apt/preferences
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Package: *
Pin: release a=testing
Pin-Priority: 998
Package: *
Pin: release a=unstable
Pin-Priority: -1
You'll want to set PPDIST='unstable apt' or so and override that
on the command line when desired.
You can see what's newer than your installed testing versions with
ppack -u unstable
And this would install deborphan from unstable:
apt-get install deborphan/unstable
Rick Younie <younie@debian.org>
Oct 2001
vim:et
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