Jonathan Nieder wrote:
Hi,
John D. Hendrickson and Sara Darnell wrote:
I have a working example of what to do that mostly uses existing
unix tools.
Well, what are you waiting for? :)
Thanks for writing, and good luck.
Jonathan
It's preliminary - to test it see it work - it's not a c++ patch [yet].
Also I've watched lists.debian.org an not seen people post awk or makefiles only patches. So I do
not know if "attatch" is right, or what is right if you want to see code.
The sorted list size is only 250 kilobytes text (pkg #s only) and it may be an answer only to use
the method to order entries in "/var/lib/dpkg/available" just once per release (so orig. collected
order is already tsorted).
I have a makefile to make dep tables (several intermediate tables) and finally tsort the result
(make the list). And then some scripts which show / sort more, lookup, deps (given any pkg, sort
list of req. pkgs against tsort list, as discussed), rdeps. etc. It can be done with mathematical
suites but tsort is a unix tool and making dep. tables is easy: shouldn't depend on a gui math suite.
It works to show it works and anything further I'll wait for feedback of the thesis. (that checking
any given install list against a tsorted dependency list of all pkgs is a good idea)
So just say what you'd like to see. I don't want to dump scripts in the mail channel unless
requested because I don't see others doing it and it's probably not a good practice in general.
John :)
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