Hey Dan, This seems like an entirely reasonable proposal to me. Thanks for taking the time to do this work.
-j On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 07:15:25PM -0700, Dan Price wrote: > > Folks, > > I recently had to answer the question: "What does SUNWcs depend upon?" > That was hard to work out. So, I've recently been hacking on "pkg list" > and then "pkg search"; while these may not be ideal ways to answer this > question, they are a good place to start. > > I'm hoping to get the thoughts of folks on the list about these > proposed changes. > > In addition to everything below, I would also like to propose a rename of > "pkg list" to "pkg list-actions" or "pkg actions-list", or to "pkg > actions". And a rename of "pkg status" to "pkg list". I haven't > done that yet-- so the output you'll see doesn't reflect that. > > > Here is what we can now do, with my changes. (n.b. most of this isn't > actually new, but some of the new keywords are very useful). I'm sending > some sample output for your consideration-- the code still needs cleanup. > > # pkg list -o :pkg.name,:action.name,:action.key -t depend > PKG.NAME ACTION.NAME ACTION.KEY > FSWxorg-clientlibs depend pkg:/[EMAIL PROTECTED] > FSWxorg-clientlibs depend pkg:/[EMAIL PROTECTED] > FSWxorg-clientlibs depend pkg:/[EMAIL PROTECTED] > FSWxorg-clientlibs depend pkg:/[EMAIL PROTECTED] > FSWxorg-clientlibs depend pkg:/[EMAIL PROTECTED] > FSWxorg-clientlibs depend pkg:/[EMAIL PROTECTED] > SUNWTiff depend pkg:/[EMAIL PROTECTED] > SUNWTiff depend pkg:/[EMAIL PROTECTED] > SUNWTiff depend pkg:/[EMAIL PROTECTED] > SUNWbzip depend pkg:/[EMAIL PROTECTED] > SUNWcs depend pkg:/[EMAIL PROTECTED] > SUNWcs depend pkg:/[EMAIL PROTECTED] > SUNWcs depend pkg:/[EMAIL PROTECTED] > SUNWcs depend pkg:/[EMAIL PROTECTED] > SUNWcs depend pkg:/[EMAIL PROTECTED] > SUNWcs depend pkg:/[EMAIL PROTECTED] > SUNWcs depend pkg:/[EMAIL PROTECTED] > SUNWcs depend pkg:/[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > :pkg.name is new; :pkg.fmri, :pkg.shortfmri, :pkg.authority are also > available. :action.name and :action.key were there before but are > renamed per Danek's suggestion. I also fixed the column width code to > account for the width of column headers. Obviously, negotiable if it > seems like it adds too much width. > > Here's a form which I suspect could be readily fed into something like > graphviz with just a little more postprocessing. > > # pkg list -H -o :pkg.shortfmri,:action.key -t depend > pkg://ipkg/[EMAIL PROTECTED] pkg:/[EMAIL PROTECTED] > pkg://ipkg/[EMAIL PROTECTED] pkg:/[EMAIL PROTECTED] > pkg://ipkg/[EMAIL PROTECTED] pkg:/[EMAIL PROTECTED] > pkg://ipkg/[EMAIL PROTECTED] pkg:/[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > That is to say, the first column is the name of a package. The > second column represents something the package depends upon. It > would also be nice to have a way of having the fmri's be in the > same form... > > Second, I am proposing to revise 'pkg search' as follows: > > old # pkg search firefox > basename pkg:/[EMAIL PROTECTED],5.11-0.79:20080205T153729Z > basename pkg:/[EMAIL PROTECTED],5.11-0.79:20080205T153840Z > basename pkg:/[EMAIL PROTECTED],5.11-0.79:20080205T173341Z > basename pkg:/[EMAIL PROTECTED],5.11-0.79:20080205T173350Z > basename pkg:/[EMAIL PROTECTED],5.11-0.79:20080205T173358Z > > new # pkg search firefox > basename link usr/bin/firefox pkg:/[EMAIL > PROTECTED],5.11-0.79:20080205T153729Z > basename dir usr/lib/firefox pkg:/[EMAIL PROTECTED],5.11-0.79:20080205T153840Z > basename dir usr/lib/firefox pkg:/[EMAIL PROTECTED],5.11-0.79:20080205T173341Z > basename dir usr/lib/firefox pkg:/[EMAIL PROTECTED],5.11-0.79:20080205T173350Z > basename dir usr/lib/firefox pkg:/[EMAIL PROTECTED],5.11-0.79:20080205T173358Z > > > While I'm not entirely happy with this output, at least it tells us > something more about what's going on when you do a search, and is > conceptually helpful to the human being who is interpreting the results. > > pkg search -r is similarly revised-- and the depot search files will need > to be rebuilt to deal with this change. This part works but is less > well tested, so far. The big problem I see with search is that the > results are not really well integrated with the rest of the packaging > system-- from a client perspective, instead of a list of matching > "action" objects, you get a set of text strings. Additionally, we lack > the ability to do substring matching-- so a search for SUNWfirefox > doesn't really do what you might expect, since it won't find a depend > action which depends on pkg:/[EMAIL PROTECTED],5.11-0.79. > > These are some things I think we should intend to fix. > > Thanks, > > -dp > > -- > Daniel Price - Solaris Kernel Engineering - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - > blogs.sun.com/dp > _______________________________________________ > pkg-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-discuss _______________________________________________ pkg-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-discuss
