On 2/28/13 8:37 AM, Kevin Walzer wrote:
> 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 firstcat=rawcat.replace('(i)', 'outdated')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
>
Nothing significant has changed in "fink list" for a while.
The documentation for the Fink Perl modules isn't on the website,
anyway--it's all in the various Fink::* manpages (check 'dpkg -L fink').
--
Alexander Hansen, Ph.D.
Fink User Liaison
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