Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2372 mails)

[Volker Kuhlmann <kuhlmav@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> It's great that SuSE lists the packages on the website and what they 
> contain. I wish there was one thing though. Can you add a search feature for 
> the packages and their contents?

Yes I know, it sucked so much that I decided to take action:

http://volker.orcon.net.nz/soft/susegrep

It's a bash script which 1) creates an index of your SuSE CDs (once),
and 2) lets you search through it. With the 6-CD set the index is about
22MB big, not that much these days and IMHO well worth the disk space. I
use it all the time, and would answer your question with

susegrep -f rz -w
allman.rpm.ls:/usr/share/man/allman/man1/rz.1.gz
rzsz.rpm.ls:/usr/bin/rz
rzsz.rpm.ls:/usr/share/man/man1/rz.1.gz
sdb_de.rpm.ls:/usr/share/doc/sdb/de/html/keylist.RZ.html
sdb_de.rpm.ls:/usr/share/doc/sdb/de/html/keylist.RZ.txt
sdb_en.rpm.ls:/usr/share/doc/sdb/en/html/keylist.RZ.html
sdb_en.rpm.ls:/usr/share/doc/sdb/en/html/keylist.RZ.txt

I.e., install package rzsz.

Here's the --help:

Usage: susegrep -i CDROM-mountpoint [CD-number]
       susegrep [-d DIR] -n|-s|-f [GREP-OPTIONS] PATTERN
Version VK 2.5.2, 05 Jan 2001, <v.kuhlmann@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Create indices of all packages on the CDs of a SuSE-Linux distribution (once),
and search the created indices (any time later).
This program does not require yast, or any of the CDs when searching.

OPTIONS:
  -h|--help            Show help
  -v|--verbose         Show packages processed when generating indices
  -d|--data DIR        Search the index in directory DIR
  -i|--index CD [NUM]  Create an index of SuSE-CD NUM, mounted at CD, in ./.
                       If NUM is missing it's established from the CD itself.
                       This needs GNU versions of find, xargs, awk, ls.
  -I|--wholeindex CD   As --index, but for all 6 CDs.
  -c|--check CD [NUM]  Check MD5 sums of CD. Similar to --index.
  -C|--cdcheck CD [NUM] Check MD5 sum of CD's ISO image.
            
Searchable indices:  
  -n|--name PATTERN    Search names of all packages for PAT (default)
  -s|--summary PATTERN Search package summaries for PAT
  -f|--file PATTERN    Search file names installed by packages for PAT
  -S|--size PATTERN    Search the package name / package size index for PAT

GREP-OPTIONS are any options as for grep.
PATTERN is a pattern as for grep.
Searchable index (-d to change) in: /usr/local/doc/SuSE


Have fun!

Volker