New features in APT-RPM

Posted Dec 2, 2003 1:28 UTC (Tue) by niemeyer (guest, #17169) [Link]

Looks interesting. Here is a Lua script that will do the same thing in APT-RPM:

    for i, pkg in pairs(pkglist()) do
        ver = pkgvercur(pkg)
        verlist = pkgverlist(pkg)
        if ver and not verisonline(ver)
           and table.getn(verlist) == 1 then
            print(pkgname(pkg) .. "-" .. verstr(ver))
        end
    end

To run it, execute the following command:

    apt-cache script ./list-extras.lua

If you want more comfort you may easily turn this into an additonal apt-cache command, and run it like:

    apt-cache list-extras

To do that, insert the following lines at the top of the Lua file:

    if command_args[1] ~= "list-extras" then
        return
    end
    command_consume = 1

And register it in your configuration with:

    Scripts::AptCache::Command:: "/path/to/list-extras.lua";

Notice that, unfortunately, this will only work with the upcoming APT-RPM 0.5.15cnc4, since the verisonline() function was implemented a few seconds ago. :-) The functionality was already there, but wasn't being exported to Lua. If you want it working now, you can check the revision 243 in the repository.