On Tue, 10 Nov 1998, Zack Brown wrote: > 4) It would be great to have a utility that searched my .dpkg/ tree and > identified any debs for which newer versions have already been downloaded. > That way I could delete the old ones and save space.
Are there .lsm's for each .deb in the ftp server? You could write a script that took the lsm for installed packages, reads the name (along the lines of this hypothetical: "kde-base_1.0" becomes "kde-base") and searches for that name in the ftp site. If the version number is greater (kde-base_1.1), queue it for download. Your script could prompt for you to replace the files after download (or could read a config file), and could use quotas, a config file, or df output to insure it didn't do any damage. I'm kinda interested in working on a script to handle something like this (perl or java, I'm no great programmer) -- if anyone, who knows a bit about the ftp site layout for debian packages, wants to lend a hand & provide some specifics for me, I'd be happy to write something (not that others couldn't do better, but I suppose we all can contribute). > 8) Last but not least, during the "select" phase, when searching for > packages, only package names are searchable. I would really like to search > descriptions as well. Package categories (Opt/News, or whatever) are also in the search list. > I hope no one takes offense to these suggestions. I'm just trying to help. > > Zack cool ideas, Zack. -- quiet rob ----------- "Just keep telling yourself you are immortal" --Albert Hofmann
