How "all packages and versions" do you mean? For example, I can do
fink list -t \*-pm\* | cut -f2,3 to get a list of the highest available version of all perlmodule packages, or just 'cut -f2' it and feed it to fink dumpinfo -fpackage,allversions to get a list of all versions of each of them present in my active Trees. But those only get what is available "now" (stable+unstable at last selfupdate), not what's in the binary distro nor what older versions may have been present before (i.e., if someone hasn't selfupdated in a while) and only sees the distro (10.4-transitional, for example) that I am running (10.3 may have a lower version, maybe 10.4 doesn't have it at all). The scripts that populate the MySQL database that feeds the web PDB aren't much more sophisticated than that, actually...they just use the lower-level perl functions that 'fink list' use under-the-hood instead of using the 'fink' command. To get the data from the different trees and distros, they actually rewrite the local fink.conf and dists/ symlink (and store those values in the MySQL tables along with the package data). dan On Mon, Mar 20, 2006 at 03:21:43PM -0600, Chris Dolan wrote: > 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 > -- > Chris Dolan, Software Developer, Clotho Advanced Media Inc. > 608-294-7900, fax 294-7025, 1435 E Main St, Madison WI 53703 > vCard: http://www.chrisdolan.net/ChrisDolan.vcf > > Clotho Advanced Media, Inc. - Creators of MediaLandscape Software > (http://www.media-landscape.com/) and partners in the revolutionary > Croquet project (http://www.opencroquet.org/) > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting language > that extends applications into web and mobile media. Attend the live webcast > and join the prime developer group breaking into this new coding territory! > http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=110944&bid=241720&dat=121642 > _______________________________________________ > Fink-devel mailing list > Fink-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-devel -- Daniel Macks [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.netspace.org/~dmacks ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting language that extends applications into web and mobile media. Attend the live webcast and join the prime developer group breaking into this new coding territory! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=110944&bid=241720&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Fink-devel mailing list Fink-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-devel
