On Tue, Sep 21, 1999 at 12:53:40PM -0700, Joey Hess wrote:
Nicolás Lichtmaier wrote:
I also find apt 0.3.11's apt-cache search to be quite useful (and fast).
I use:
perl -n00e '/xml/i print;' /var/state/apt/lists/*Packages | less
(to search for XML related packaged e.g.)
Nicolás Lichtmaier wrote:
I also find apt 0.3.11's apt-cache search to be quite useful (and fast).
I use:
perl -n00e '/xml/i print;' /var/state/apt/lists/*Packages | less
(to search for XML related packaged e.g.)
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~apt-cache search xml
libroxen-swarm - Swarning
I also find apt 0.3.11's apt-cache search to be quite useful (and fast).
I use:
perl -n00e '/xml/i print;' /var/state/apt/lists/*Packages | less
(to search for XML related packaged e.g.)
Germano Leichsenring [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
By the way, am I the only one grepping the available file??
No, and (for those of you who don't already know), there are
two nice packages that make doing so even easier and more useful:
*grep-dctrl* allows you to extract entire package chunks
On Thu, Sep 16, 1999 at 10:52:31PM +, David Coe wrote:
Germano Leichsenring [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
By the way, am I the only one grepping the available file??
No, and (for those of you who don't already know), there are
two nice packages that make doing so even easier and more
On Thu, Sep 16, 1999 at 12:51:16PM +0200, Laurent Martelli wrote:
SB == Stephane Bortzmeyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
SB On Thursday 16 September 1999, at 2 h 3, the keyboard of Laurent
SB Martelli [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
very nice, but how will uninstallation be handled ? Will
On Fri, 17 Sep 1999, Fabien Ninoles wrote:
What should be good is a new state saying that a package has been
install by the dependencies check rather than by user direct selection.
So, the package will stay as long as it resolved a dependency, but
be remove when no more package who depends on
JH == Joey Hess [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
JH * The long awaited redesign of the installation profiles has
JH begun. Now there are metapackages; packages that depend on a
JH group of packages that relate to a common activity, like playing
JH games or developing C programs. Martin
Actually about these metapackages, what about having a new field
in the /var/lib/dpkg/info/available file, the Keywords: field?
The keywords would be predefined, and it would be _much_ easier to
find a package... now, if I don't know the name of a package, I have
to grep through the available
On Thu, Sep 16, 1999 at 09:27:25AM +0900, Germano Leichsenring wrote:
Actually about these metapackages, what about having a new field
in the /var/lib/dpkg/info/available file, the Keywords: field?
The keywords would be predefined, and it would be _much_ easier to
find a package... now, if I
On Thursday 16 September 1999, at 2 h 3, the keyboard of Laurent Martelli
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
very nice, but how will uninstallation be handled ? Will you be able
to uninstall all the packages of a metapackage in one step ?
Certainly not:
- a package can be a member of several
Joe Drew [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Joe How is this different from metapackages? After all, all you have
Joe to do is look at the metapackage's dependencies itself to see
Joe what it gives you.
At the beginning they're not much different; if you consider the
metapackages implementation is
* Laurent == Laurent Martelli [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Laurent Being able to select several packages by selecting a
Laurent metapackage is very nice, but how will uninstallation be
Laurent handled ? Will you be able to uninstall all the packages of a
Laurent metapackage in one step ?
* Stephane
SB == Stephane Bortzmeyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
SB On Thursday 16 September 1999, at 2 h 3, the keyboard of Laurent
SB Martelli [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
very nice, but how will uninstallation be handled ? Will you be
able to uninstall all the packages of a metapackage in one step
Martin == Martin Bialasinski [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Martin * Laurent == Laurent Martelli [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Martin wrote:
Martin * Stephane == Stephane Bortzmeyer [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Martin wrote:
Laurent It would also be nice to be able to select the packages one
Laurent by one,
On Thu, Sep 16, 1999 at 05:11:10PM +0900, Germano Leichsenring wrote:
By the way, am I the only one grepping the available file??
Nope. I too find it necessary when I don't want to connect to the
debian website. =)
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