Wow, great thing. If you ask me this should be included in the SuSE distribution. Besides that it would help if they had a search index on the web, which handles the same thing.

From: Volker Kuhlmann <kuhlmav@elec.canterbury.ac.nz> To: suse-linux-e@suse.com Subject: Re: [SLE] package search Date: Fri, 05 Jan 2001 15:02:29 +1300 (NZDT)

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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@elec.canterbury.ac.nz>

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

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