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and subject line Re: Bug#474660: Bug#463665: wnpp-alert,rc-alert,manpage-alert:
user provided package list?
has caused the Debian Bug report #474660,
regarding [manpage-alert] Support user provided package list
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Package: devscripts
Version: 2.10.13
Severity: wishlist
Hello,
I am involved in the maintenance of a number of different machines.
Rather than run *-alert on each of these machines it would be
convenient if if could feed each of these programs a package list
so as to be alerted to packages on those machines that need more
care.
Thanks and regards,
Kapil.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.22-3-vserver-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages devscripts depends on:
ii debianutils 2.28.2 Miscellaneous utilities specific t
ii dpkg-dev 1.14.15 package building tools for Debian
ii libc6 2.7-6 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii perl 5.8.8-12 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction
ii sed 4.1.5-5 The GNU sed stream editor
Versions of packages devscripts recommends:
ii fakeroot 1.9 Gives a fake root environment
-- no debconf information
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On Mon, 2008-04-07 at 23:39 +0100, I wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Sat, 2008-02-02 at 08:42 +0530, Kapil Hari Paranjape wrote:
> > I am involved in the maintenance of a number of different machines.
> > Rather than run *-alert on each of these machines it would be
> > convenient if if could feed each of these programs a package list
> > so as to be alerted to packages on those machines that need more
> > care.
>
> manpage-alert doesn't operate on packages but rather the files found in
> the given set of paths.
>
> Unlike wnpp-alert and rc-alert, its data source is the local file system
> rather than an external source so I'm not sure that the idea of being
> able to check everything from one machine makes sense in this case. The
> output is also a list of files, not packages.
I'm still convinced that the original request is only applicable to
{rc,wnpp}-alert rather than manpage-alert so I'm closing this bug.
Feel free to re-open if you can provide a logical argument as to how
manpage-alert could be fed a package list. :-)
Regards,
Adam
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