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Hi,

Anyone knows of a comfortable way to browse the content of various
Slackware packages? I'm currently reworking my "Linux From Slack"
documentation, and I need to have a detailed look at the content of many
packages from a/, ap/, d/, l/ and n/. It's a bit tedious to explodepkg
every package one by one ,run 'tree | less' and then rm -rf afterwards.

Niki

On Dec 12, 8:10 am, Niki Kovacs <mic...@mouse.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Anyone knows of a comfortable way to browse the content of various
> Slackware packages?

tar -tzf slackware-package...tgz

Hallo, Niki,

Du meintest am 12.12.07:

> Anyone knows of a comfortable way to browse the content of various
> Slackware packages?

FTP-Server:

.../linux/slackware/slackware-<version>/slackware/MANIFEST.bz2

Viele Gruesse
Helmut

"Ubuntu" - an African word, meaning "Slackware is too hard for me".

In article <475fdde2$0$27095$426a34cc@news.free.fr>,
Niki Kovacs <mickey@mouse.com> wrote:

> Anyone knows of a comfortable way to browse the content of various
> Slackware packages?

IIRC, Konqueror (KDE's file manager) will let you browse right into tgz
archives as if they were directories.

- Martijn

Niki Kovacs <mickey@mouse.com> wrote:
>Anyone knows of a comfortable way to browse the content of various
>Slackware packages?

I primarily recommend Helmut's suggestion of using the MANIFEST file...

....but you can also open a tar file with vim. (There's a plug-in to
handle it which ships standard.) Then you can select files to view from
within vim. It rocks.

For more info in vim, type :help pi_tar

-Beej

On 2007-12-12, Beej Jorgensen <beej@beej.us> wrote:
> Niki Kovacs <mickey@mouse.com> wrote:
>>Anyone knows of a comfortable way to browse the content of various
>>Slackware packages?
>
> I primarily recommend Helmut's suggestion of using the MANIFEST file...
>
> ...but you can also open a tar file with vim. (There's a plug-in to
> handle it which ships standard.) Then you can select files to view from
> within vim. It rocks.


less(1) will do the same thing.

-RW

Niki Kovacs wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Anyone knows of a comfortable way to browse the content of various
> Slackware packages? I'm currently reworking my "Linux From Slack"
> documentation, and I need to have a detailed look at the content of many
> packages from a/, ap/, d/, l/ and n/. It's a bit tedious to explodepkg
> every package one by one ,run 'tree | less' and then rm -rf afterwards.

Give mc a try.

Steve

Martijn Dekker <martijn@inlv.demon.nl> says:
>In article <475fdde2$0$27095$426a34cc@news.free.fr>,
> Niki Kovacs <mickey@mouse.com> wrote:

>> Anyone knows of a comfortable way to browse the content of various
>> Slackware packages?

>IIRC, Konqueror (KDE's file manager) will let you browse right into tgz
>archives as if they were directories.

mc will allow you to look inside if you prefer a CLI app.

cordially, as always,

rm

Wed, 12 Dec 2007 13:10:59 +0000, Niki Kovacs did catÂ*:

> Hi,
>
> Anyone knows of a comfortable way to browse the content of various
> Slackware packages? I'm currently reworking my "Linux From Slack"
> documentation, and I need to have a detailed look at the content of many
> packages from a/, ap/, d/, l/ and n/. It's a bit tedious to explodepkg
> every package one by one ,run 'tree | less' and then rm -rf afterwards.
>
> Niki

Depending on what you want to do there are many possibilities,
when I need to quickly check stuff about a package I
usually take a glance at the MANIFEST file.

example, which package contains libfribidi:
# bzcat ...pathtoyourrepository/slackware/MANIFEST.bz2 | awk '/libfribidi/{print $5}' RS=
../l/fribidi-0.10.7-i486-1.tgz

example, what is in the fribidi-0.10.7-i486-1.tgz package:
# bzcat ...pathtoyourrepository/slackware/MANIFEST.bz2 | awk '/fribidi-0.10.7-i486-1.tgz/' RS=
++========================================
||
|| Package: ./l/fribidi-0.10.7-i486-1.tgz
||
++========================================
drwxr-xr-x root/root 0 2006-06-14 01:38:44 ./
drwxr-xr-x root/root 0 2006-06-14 01:38:44 usr/
....^C

And if you want to print the content of the corresponding .txt:
# toto=$(bzcat ...pathtoyourrepository/slackware/MANIFEST.bz2 | awk '/libfribidi/{print $5}' RS=)
# cat "..pathtoyourrepository/slackware/${toto/%.tgz/.txt}"
fribidi: fribidi (Unicode BiDirectional algorithm library)
fribidi:
....

Now, that this method could be called
"a comfortable way to browse the content..."
is probably a question of balance ;-)