Quoting Otto Kekäläinen (2024-08-19 03:45:37) > I tried to use codesearch.debian.net to find out how many packages have a > debian/gbp.conf but it seems it can't be used to simply list packages that > have a specific file, it always also needs a search terms to look up inside > the file. > > With > https://codesearch.debian.net/search?q=path%3Adebian%2Fgbp.conf+debian-branch+%3F%3D+%3Fdebian%2Flatest&literal=0 > I was able to find that 1655 packages have either "debian-branch = > debian/latest" or "debian-branch=debian/latest". > > Is there some easy way to iterate every single Debian package and > extract just one single file from them without having to download all > packages? > > I'd like to see how many % of all Debian packages have a gbp.conf file, and > then download all of them to do stats on what they contain.
finding out which package contains a given file is better done via the Contents
files from our mirrors. The apt-file tool provides an easy interface to search
these contents files and answer the question "which package contains a file or
path that looks like this".
By default, apt-file will only download (and search) Contents files for binary
packages and not source packages. To change that, edit
/etc/apt/apt.conf.d/50apt-file.conf and change DefaultEnabled from "false" to
"true" in the section deb-src::Contents-dsc. Once that is done you run "apt
update" to download the newly enabled Contents files and then you can run a
search like this:
$ apt-file --index-names dsc search debian/gbp.conf
You need to add --index-names because the default value is "deb" and that would
only search through binary packages.
Thanks!
cheers, josch
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