[Slapt-get-user] Search MANIFEST.TGZ

[Nathan Morell]

Peace Maker Maker wrote:

> Is there a way to sarch the contents of packages, much like scanning 
> MANIFEST.TGZ in order to find out which package a particular file 
> belongs to?  Thanks.
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I wrote a perl script to search thru MANIFEST.gz, which must be 
converted from the MANIFEST.bz2 found on slackware.com's FTP.

file is attached. you'll have to change the location in the script to 
point to where ever you put your manifest file, I think its self 
explinatory.

--Nathan
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#!/usr/bin/perl

use strict;
use warnings;

use PerlIO::gzip;
open FOO, "<:gzip", "/home/jidar/MANIFEST.gz" or die $!;

my $temp;
while (<FOO>){ # And it will be uncompressed...
    if ($_ =~ m/\|\|   Package:  /g) {
        $_ =~ s/\|\|   Package:  /PACKAGE: /g;
        $temp = $_;
    }
    if ($_ =~ m/($ARGV[0])/g) {
        print $temp . $_;
    }
}