I would like to make the package-search on packages.debian.org
available offline on my computer,
because I want to use it for searching sarge-packages
after the release of etch and maybe even after the release of lenny.
I found the web-front-end on cvs, but not the database.
Is the database of pa
> perhaps apt-file may be what you want?
No, neither apt-file nor apt-cache.
I know them both, but I happened to like packages.debian.org best.
So I try to find it, before the release of etch, when sarge becomes oldstable.
jfr
>In other words, please tell us what information you are really wanting
>out of your search and what the results might look like.
What I like in this search feature is the possibility
to get all informations immediately on one page,
without having to vary commandline options:
exact name, short a
>Well, in that case "apt-cache show dpkg-www"
>will do the trick as shown here:
I must admit that in the extent of information this is not worse.
>What objection is there for that?
It's just a kind of prefering the one and not the other way.
For myself, in _this_ case, commandline is the more cir
>It gives you a good start to understand
>why the command line is so powerful.
>Remember, this little script is just a very small example
>which can be expanded upon to nearly zero limits.
I myself wondering, but you convinced me.
It is good to know,that there is a possibilty
to write something
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