On Saturday 14 April 2007, Gabor Szabo wrote: > Hi, > > I would like to setup a database where I could pick one or more Perl > modules from CPAN ( http://search.cpan.org/ ) and see which Linux > distributions provide that module (and which version of the module) in > their > standard packing system? > > For Ubuntu I was pointed at this site: > http://packages.ubuntulinux.org/dapper/perl/ > I guess I can screen scrap that page or I might even get my hand on > the original database. Same with Debian > http://www.debian.org/distrib/packages I think. > > What about other distribution? What about Solaris and other Unix machines? > Can you ppl. point me to the package listings of other distributions? >
Put it all on one line: <<<<<<<<< $ ncftpls \ ftp://ftp.nluug.nl/pub/os/Linux/distr/Mandriva/official/2007.1/i586/media/main/release/ | grep '^perl-' >>>>>>>>> This is only for Mandriva 2007.1. If you want different versions, you can play with the URL. Note that some of the packages there are core: perl-devel, perl-doc, etc. Regards, Shlomi Fish --------------------------------------------------------------------- Shlomi Fish [EMAIL PROTECTED] Homepage: http://www.shlomifish.org/ If it's not in my E-mail it doesn't happen. And if my E-mail is saying one thing, and everything else says something else - E-mail will conquer. -- An Israeli Linuxer ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
