On 20050105T163207-0500, William Ballard wrote: > echo '<packages><entry>' > zcat /a/dists/latest/binary-i386/Packages.gz | \ > grep-dctrl . | sed -r > -e 's/(Description): > (.+)/<\1><Short-Description>\2<\/Short-Description><Long-Decription><![CDATA[/' > \ > -e 's/([^:]+): (.+)/<\1>\2<\/\1>/' \ > -e 's/^$/]]><\/Long-Description><\/entry><entry>/' | \ > head -n-1 > echo '</Long-Description></entry></packages>'
Not that I'm not flattered by the fact that you use grep-dctrl, but ... Is it really your intent here to filter out those packages whose packages record does not contain a literal dot? Sounds like a quite puzzling requirement, IMHO. -- Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho, Debian developer http://kaijanaho.info/antti-juhani/blog/en/debian
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