On May 12, 2005, at 11:31 PM, Daniel Johnson wrote:
I've written an info file mdimporter. It doesn't use fink or perl at all;
Yeah, dmacks showed this to me a bit ago. It's very nice. But I guess I just think it would be nicer to have the mdimporter actually use Fink. This would be good for packages that use name-munging (ie: variants), and also because of the potential for background Fink indexing.
I looked at doing an importer for deb files, but it's complicated because you need un-ar, un-gzip, AND un-tar (as far as I can tell) to get at the metadata. mdimporters need to be small and fast; all that overhead could be an issue. I didn't try it, so maybe it's not that bad--I'm just guessing.
Er, it's best if you can just use dpkg-deb. Perhaps an executable could be included using some install_name_tool magic (or a static executable).
Dave
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