[SOLVED] Rethinking the description during install?

niels.horn · 03-19-2011, 10:44 PM

Uhm, I always like watching the slack-desc of aalib flashing by...

ruario · 03-20-2011, 02:28 AM

Code:

a/pkgtools-13.37-noarch-3.tgz:  Rebuilt.
  Accept non-standard slack-desc for installpkg --terse.

Thanks PatV.

Obviously, I went and fixed my own packages but that will help any others out there who made this same mistake.

Ramurd · 03-21-2011, 07:24 AM

... Great community-driven thinking and implementation! Now what we really need is a command to read all the long descriptions, as so much typing work has been put in them to be written, that they should also be read; it would go somewhere along these lines:

Code:

ls /var/log/packages | while read fn
do
    START=`cat /var/log/packages/${fn} | grep -n "PACKAGE DESCRIPTION" | cut -d ':' -f 1`
    END=`cat /var/log/packages/${fn} | grep -n "FILE LIST" | cut -d ':' -f 1`
    ((END-=1))
    ((LINES=END-START))
    cat /var/log/packages/${fn} | head -n ${END} | tail -n ${LINES} | cut -d ':' -f 2

    echo -n "Press -enter- for the next package"
    read go_on
done

Also, what'd have been cool is an animated ascii of a penguin with a wizard hat telling how fast and more stable everything has become... ^.^

Skaperen · 03-21-2011, 08:31 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Darth Vader

Then, make this frakking thread solved, man!

Oh, sorry, I wasn't thinking of this as a problem, but a discussion. But I marked it.