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samsara

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From: Edinburgh, UK

Registered: 2005-01-27

Posts: 16

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useful tool for all package builders: whohas

If you've ever wanted to check whether packages for other distributions already exist, with the aim of copying from their build scripts, here is a command line front-end to Arch, Debian, Gentoo and Slackware repository queries:
http://www.philippwesche.org/2004/progr … intro.html

Sample output:

[phil@epistasis whohas]$ whohas thunderbird | grep "thunderbird " | grep "^Arch"
Arch      mozilla-thunderbird       1.0-1           18-01-2005 Current     http://www.archlinux.org/packages.php?id=4237

Where "Current" refers to the name of the repository, not the status of the package.

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