Le 11/29/22 à 5:48 PM, David Wright a écrit :
Please don't post HTML, but text.
Sorry, I thought my messages were multipart.
I just realized they were not after your message.
I'll have to fine-tune my MUA (thunderbird).
For the moment, I changed it to text only.
On Sun 27 Nov 2022 at 17:25:45 (+0100), Yassine Chaouche wrote:
I tried to achieve the same w/o using apt-cache, but couldn't. <br>
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16:37:50 ~ -1- $ grep-dctrl -PX syslog-summary
/var/lib/apt/lists/*_Packages
Those are the wrong files for the descriptions; you want *_Translation-en
Cheers,
David.
Thanks!
Now I only need to find a way to exit grep-dctrl on first match.
Skimming through the manpage I didn't find anything related,
except for -q which also disables printing.
I'm thinking about turning a single grep-dctrl call with multiple files
into a loop that would end after first grep-dctrl success exit code,
something like :
function package.describe2 {
for file in /var/lib/apt/lists/*_Translation-en
do
grep-dctrl -s Description-en "$1" "$file" && printf "%64s : %s\n" "$file" "$?"
&& break
done
}
But even then, translation files might contain more than one entry for same
package,
maybe one for each (version x architecture) product.
For eg.:
$ grep-dctrl winbind -s Description-en
/var/lib/apt/lists/security.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_trusty-security_main_i18n_Translation-en
Description-en: Samba winbind client library - development files
Samba is an implementation of the SMB/CIFS protocol for Unix systems,
providing support for cross-platform file and printer sharing with
Microsoft Windows, OS X, and other Unix systems.
.
This package provides the development files (static library and headers)
required for building applications against libwbclient, a library for client
applications that interact via the winbind pipe protocol with a Samba
winbind server.
Description-en: Samba winbind client library
Samba is an implementation of the SMB/CIFS protocol for Unix systems,
providing support for cross-platform file and printer sharing with
Microsoft Windows, OS X, and other Unix systems.
.
This package provides a library for client applications that interact
via the winbind pipe protocol with a Samba winbind server.
Description-en: SMB/CIFS file, print, and login server for Unix
Samba is an implementation of the SMB/CIFS protocol for Unix systems,
providing support for cross-platform file and printer sharing with
Microsoft Windows, OS X, and other Unix systems. Samba can also function
as an NT4-style domain controller, and can integrate with both NT4 domains
and Active Directory realms as a member server.
.
This package provides the components necessary to use Samba as a stand-alone
file and print server or as an NT4 or Active Directory domain controller.
For use in an NT4 domain or Active Directory realm, you will also need the
winbind package.
.
This package is not required for connecting to existing SMB/CIFS servers
(see smbclient) or for mounting remote filesystems (see cifs-utils).
Description-en: service to resolve user and group information from Windows NT
servers
Samba is an implementation of the SMB/CIFS protocol for Unix systems,
providing support for cross-platform file sharing with Microsoft Windows, OS X,
and other Unix systems. Samba can also function as a domain controller
or member server in both NT4-style and Active Directory domains.
.
This package provides winbindd, a daemon which integrates authentication
and directory service (user/group lookup) mechanisms from a Windows
domain on a Linux system.
.
Winbind based user/group lookups via /etc/nsswitch.conf can be enabled via
the libnss-winbind package. Winbind based Windows domain authentication can
be enabled via the libpam-winbind package.
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Should I just continue hacking around until I get desired results
(maybe process output with awk)
or is there a better approach to this? (reaching grep-dctrl limits)
Best,
--
Yassine -- sysadm
