[opensuse-factory] improved my maintainer tool and some more thoughts
Hi, I had written last year about my tool https://maintainer.zq1.de/ but it has seen some improvements recently. Initially it was meant as a help for screening openSUSE bugs on bugzilla and getting them to the right people. You can ask it about things like "bash", "ls", "/usr/share/sounds/alsa/test.wav", or "Mesa(x86_64)" and it will find out which package you are interested in (if it is in Factory). I fixed bug #1 about not being able to handle multiple results (e.g. two packages provide "python" or "httpd") but I also extended it to know about package versions in other Linux distributions. I managed to support most relevant actively maintained distributions, which is opensuse gentoo archlinux altlinux centos fedora mageia debian ubuntu slackware making around 8 different base-distributions And that made me think once again of our 2011-04-01 joke about the Canterbury Project and how many people liked the idea of different distributions working more closely together. At least now there is a place for packagers to quickly check out how other distributions are solving things, because I link to their package search, which usually allows to view their patches and spec-file or equivalent. We might even promote that tool (or a task-focused derivative of it) towards maintainers of other linux distributions because they certainly could benefit as well from not always having to re-invent the wheel. What do you think? How could I improve my tool? Ciao Bernhard M. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org
26.12.2015 09:37, Bernhard M. Wiedemann пишет:
At least now there is a place for packagers to quickly check out how other distributions are solving things, because I link to their package search, which usually allows to view their patches and spec-file or equivalent.
I do not see any links to other distributions; only list of package versions. When you say "link" do you actually mean "URL" or I misundertood you? -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org
On Saturday 26 December 2015 10.14:55 Andrei Borzenkov wrote:
26.12.2015 09:37, Bernhard M. Wiedemann пишет:
At least now there is a place for packagers to quickly check out how other distributions are solving things, because I link to their package search, which usually allows to view their patches and spec-file or equivalent.
I do not see any links to other distributions; only list of package versions.
When you say "link" do you actually mean "URL" or I misundertood you?
There's link but you have to make the 1st step :-) Enter something in search field and TADA the links appears You can also search for something in openSUSE OBS Packman Gentoo Arch Linux AUR ALTLinux Fedora Debian Ubuntu -- Bruno Friedmann Ioda-Net Sàrl www.ioda-net.ch openSUSE Member & Board, fsfe fellowship GPG KEY : D5C9B751C4653227 irc: tigerfoot -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org
26.12.2015 11:18, Bruno Friedmann пишет:
On Saturday 26 December 2015 10.14:55 Andrei Borzenkov wrote:
26.12.2015 09:37, Bernhard M. Wiedemann пишет:
At least now there is a place for packagers to quickly check out how other distributions are solving things, because I link to their package search, which usually allows to view their patches and spec-file or equivalent.
I do not see any links to other distributions; only list of package versions.
When you say "link" do you actually mean "URL" or I misundertood you?
There's link but you have to make the 1st step :-)
Thank you for taking me for a complete idiot.
Enter something in search field and TADA the links appears
No, they do not.
You can also search for something in openSUSE OBS Packman Gentoo Arch Linux AUR ALTLinux Fedora Debian Ubuntu
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 26/12/15 15:18, Andrei Borzenkov wrote:
26.12.2015 11:18, Bruno Friedmann пишет:
Enter something in search field and TADA the links appears
No, they do not.
it is the one part of the tool that uses javascript (but it could be re-written to work server-side) Ciao Bernhard M. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iEYEARECAAYFAlZ+v4UACgkQSTYLOx37oWQTIgCbBsEW5UYWaTDuYgf2Zk37ipmk sBgAoMekWFfq7d9jBrIpbEZLdQrIwDHX =TkbW -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org
On 26/12/2015 08:37, Bernhard M. Wiedemann wrote:
Hi,
I had written last year about my tool https://maintainer.zq1.de/
but it has seen some improvements recently.
Initially it was meant as a help for screening openSUSE bugs on bugzilla and getting them to the right people. You can ask it about things like "bash", "ls", "/usr/share/sounds/alsa/test.wav", or "Mesa(x86_64)" and it will find out which package you are interested in (if it is in Factory).
I fixed bug #1 about not being able to handle multiple results (e.g. two packages provide "python" or "httpd")
but I also extended it to know about package versions in other Linux distributions. I managed to support most relevant actively maintained distributions, which is opensuse gentoo archlinux altlinux centos fedora mageia debian ubuntu slackware making around 8 different base-distributions
And that made me think once again of our 2011-04-01 joke about the Canterbury Project and how many people liked the idea of different distributions working more closely together. At least now there is a place for packagers to quickly check out how other distributions are solving things, because I link to their package search, which usually allows to view their patches and spec-file or equivalent.
We might even promote that tool (or a task-focused derivative of it) towards maintainers of other linux distributions because they certainly could benefit as well from not always having to re-invent the wheel.
What do you think? How could I improve my tool?
Ciao Bernhard M. I haven't had the chance to explore the tool much but I didn't know of it's existence and it's a nice Christmas present for me. It will save me a lot of searching time. Does it know about package names that vary between distributions? Dave Plater -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 26/12/15 13:18, Dave Plater wrote:
I haven't had the chance to explore the tool much but I didn't know of it's existence and it's a nice Christmas present for me. It will save me a lot of searching time.
you are welcome. Happy Christmas.
Does it know about package names that vary between distributions?
no. But if you know the names (or use the javascript-based search links) you can still get information about it. e.g. https://maintainer.zq1.de/libwww-perl https://maintainer.zq1.de/perl-libwww-perl and if you use the apt-get or aptitude wrapper on openSUSE-Tumbleweed, it can map many Debian package names to openSUSE ones, so that you can use (via copy-paste) many HowTos that were written for Debian or Ubuntu. Ciao Bernhard M. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iEYEARECAAYFAlZ+wgIACgkQSTYLOx37oWST4QCgmOAIuZC0siKmFukAcuTi2Q14 mqwAnAgQh1Re7Nx18ov0QYYb0wbQSAhY =PFJz -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org
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