Is there a machine-readable list of all packages and versions
provided by current Fink? The data obviously exists in a database on
pdb.finkproject.org but short of scraping HTML or fetching CVS, I
can't figure out how to access that list.
Background:
There's a Perl library called Module::Packaged (http://
search.cpan.org/dist/Module-Packaged/) which collects the versions of
CPAN modules packaged by various OS distributions. For example,
given the CPAN module Archive::Any, you can learn that the current
versions are:
cpan: 1.08
debian: 1.03
gentoo: 1.05
etc. I'm working with the author to get Fink packages added to his
list. My current solution is a cron-driven CVS pull and hackish
parse of the info files in main/finkinfo/lib/perlmods/*-pm*.info and
crypto/finkinfo/*-pm*.info. I'd like to create a more elegant
solution, if feasible.
Thanks,
Chris
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