On Wed, Sep 26, 2007 at 01:57:06PM -0400, Kevin Walzer wrote:
> Daniel Macks wrote:
>
> > I would have thought that 'fink dumpinfo -fsection PACKAGENAME' would
> > tell you, but -fsection doesn't seem implemented? Oops.However, you
> > can 'fink dumpinfo -finfofile PACKAGENAME' and see the section
> > embedded in the pathname.
>
> Well, this works, and doesn't spike my CPU to 90%. However, to get the
> same results as iterating through each section (22 calls to Fink), I now
> have to iterate through all 6,444 individual packages and call this
> command (fink dumpinfo -fsection PACKAGENAME) each time: 6,444 calls to
> Fink, which I then must parse further by extracting the directory name
> from the output. I guess I have to pick my poison.
>
> MacPorts includes the package category in its basic listing. Here's a
> sample from the command-line ("port list"):
>
> zope-ploneerrorreporting @0.11 zope/zope-ploneerrorreporting
>
> It's useful from the command-line because you can see what categories
> are available without going to a website. How can I submit this as a
> feature request for Fink? For instance, the output could look like this:
>
> p ztrack 1.0-1 games Curses-based
> pseudo 3D driving game
>
> I'm assuming that Fink would be able to parse its own data cache fairly
> quickly and include the category with the standard output--much faster
> than extracting the data as I currently am.
Yeah. 'fink list' could take -f flags like 'fink dumpinfo' does, so
one could request arbitrary fields. There's a "fink feature requests"
tracker on sourceforge linked from fink's homepage.
Curiosity's getting to me and I gotta ask...of what use is knowing the
section to which a package belongs? Or is there some other ultimate
goal here (sounds like what you *really* want is just a list of all
sections)?
dan
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