I develop a GUI for Fink that attempts, among other things, to provide a
one-screen view of all Fink packages, including their
categories/sections. Historically the fink command-line tool has
provided a flag to query the packages by a single category, e.g. fink
list --section=foo, but no other hooks; "fink list" lacks this
information. (This is in contrast to MacPorts, whose equivalent command
to "fink list" does list categories.)
The result is that, to build a complete list of Fink packages that
includes their categories, I must loop through each category in turn and
append to the list that way, which is painfully slow. Here's the Python
code that I use:
self.getpackages = os.popen('%s list --section=%s' %
(finkcmd, self.catname), 'r', os.O_NONBLOCK)
for line in self.getpackages:
newline = line.split('\t')
rawcat = newline[0]
if rawcat == '(i)':
firstcat=rawcat.replace('(i)', 'outdated')
elif rawcat == ' i ':
firstcat=rawcat.replace('i', 'current')
elif rawcat == ' p ':
firstcat=rawcat.replace('p', 'provided')
else:
firstcat = rawcat
self.packagelist = (firstcat, newline[1], newline[2],
self.catname, newline[3].strip('\n'))
self.masterlist.append(self.packagelist)
Because the Fink site is still apparently down, I am not able to check
the developer documentation to see if there have been any changes or
enhancements to the fink tool API. Is there any better way to get a
complete list of packages and their categories in a single pass that I'm
not aware of, perhaps using some Perl and calling Fink's API directly as
a module?
Thanks,
Kevin
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Kevin Walzer
Code by Kevin/Mobile Code by Kevin
http://www.codebykevin.com
http://www.wtmobilesoftware.com
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