Package: debram Version: 1.0.3-0.1 Severity: wishlist Tags: patch Hi there,
I've quickly hacked a minimal http frontend to debram, so that one can navigate the catalogue with a web browser. Perhaps it could be included in doc/examples? Cheers, Serafeim
#!/usr/bin/env python ############################################################################ # Copyright (C) 2008 Serafeim Zanikolas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> # # This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify # it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by # the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or # (at your option) any later version. # # This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, # but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of # MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the # GNU General Public License for more details. # # You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License # along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software # Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA ############################################################################ from BaseHTTPServer import BaseHTTPRequestHandler, HTTPServer from commands import getstatusoutput import re, sys class Handler(BaseHTTPRequestHandler): sectid_re = re.compile("([^0-9])([0-9]{4}) ") pkgname_re = re.compile(u"\n\n(.*) ([^ ]*)\n") def do_GET(self): try: try: query_type, arg = self.path.split(":") except ValueError: query_type, arg = "/sec", "" if query_type == "/sec": status, reply = getstatusoutput("debram -L %s" % arg) reply = Handler.pkgname_re.sub(\ r"<br/><br/>\1<a href='/pkg:\2'> \2</a><br/>", reply) reply = Handler.sectid_re.sub(r"\1<a href='/sec:\2'>\2</a> ",\ reply) elif query_type == "/pkg": status, reply = getstatusoutput("apt-cache show %s" % arg) reply = reply.replace("\n", "<br/>") self.send_response(200) self.send_header('Content-type', 'text/html') self.end_headers() self.wfile.write(reply) except: self.send_error(400,'Bad request: %s' % self.path) def main(): port = 11080 try: port = int(sys.argv[1]) except IndexError: pass except ValueError: print "A quick hack for browsing the ramified catalogue of Debian packages." print "syntax: debram-httpd.py [port] (port defaults to %d)" % port sys.exit(1) try: listener = HTTPServer(('', port), Handler) listener.serve_forever() except KeyboardInterrupt: listener.socket.close() if __name__ == '__main__': main()