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hpaluch1
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Joined: 05 Mar 2005
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 Posted: Sat Mar 05, 2005 7:10 pm Post subject: Simple script to list packages with description |
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Hi folks!
Recently I have an idea to create simple list of all portages in /usr/portage along with one line description, but didn't find command to do this. So after little analysis of /usr/bin/emerge I had written this tiny python script:
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# portage_list.py
# show 1line descriptions of all portage packages
# Note: you must be in portage group (or root)!
import portage
for x in portage.db["/"]["porttree"].getallnodes():
e_build = portage.portdb.xmatch("bestmatch-visible",x)
descr = "*** None"
if len(e_build) > 0: # sometimes no unmasked ebuild available!
descr = portage.portdb.aux_get(e_build,["DESCRIPTION"])[0]
print "%-20s - %s" % ( x, descr )
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It will produce output like this:
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app-accessibility/gok - Gnome Onscreen Keyboard
app-accessibility/epos - language independent text-to-speech system
app-accessibility/yasr - general-purpose console screen reader
app-accessibility/gnome-mag - Gnome magnification service definition
app-accessibility/flite - Flite text to speech engine
app-accessibility/festival-gaim - A plugin for gaim which enables text-to-speech
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That simple old plain text list can be handy for browsing with less, etc. Maybe someone find it useful 
Best regards
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G2k
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Location: Rome, Italy
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| Posted: Thu Dec 29, 2005 3:09 pm Post subject: |
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nice idea this should be included in portage's -v option.
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pjp
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| Posted: Thu Dec 29, 2005 8:34 pm Post subject: |
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See also app-portage/esearch
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