On Sun, Apr 13, 2008 at 12:23:33PM +0200, Bernhard R. Link wrote:
> * Marc Haber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [080411 18:29]:
> > from the man page, I guess that it is only possible to search for
> > "Package" and "Source" headers, and that no wildcards are supported.
> >
> > Empirical tests have shown that
> >
> > reprepro listfilter etch 'Package'
> >
> > does not what I expect, listing all binary packages in etch - it also
> > lists source packages.
> >
> > Are wildcards supported?
>
> The manpage currently states:
>
> |listfilter codename condition
> | as list, but does not list a single package, but all
> | packages matching the given condition.
> |
> | reprepro -b . -T deb listfilter test2 'Source (==blub)
> | | ( !Source , Package (==blub) )' will e.g. find all
> | .deb Packages with Source blub.
This is a surprise. The meaning of the comma is not explained, and the
| is usually parsed as "or", which would make your explanation wrong.
Additionally, the requirement to put the value to be compared against
in parenthesis ("Source (==blub)") is a very uncommon syntax which I
have never seen outside Package Dependencies.
> | (Except those also specifying a version number with its Source, as
> | binary and source version differ).
> |
> | The values checked are directly the headers in the
> | repspective index file compared alphabetically. That
> | means that each part <Fieldname> (<cmp> <value>) of the for-
> | mula will be true for exactly those package that have
> | in the Package or Sources file a line starting with
> | <fieldname> and a value is alphabetically <cmp> to <value>.
>
> So 'Package' will find everything with a Package field, which
> should be everything, because both Packages and Sources lines
> contain 'Packages' fields.
So it should be 'Package & !Source'? No, "Unexpected character '&'".
> And Wildcards are not supported.
They should
> Any suggestions for a better text to describe those lines
> highly welcome, I suck at writing documentation.
Unfortunately, I am far away from even understanding the bizarre
syntax to even use it, let alone write documentation about it.
Greetings
Marc
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