[OpenIndiana-discuss] Fun Task - Comparing OI packages vs CentOS, Debian, Ubuntu etc

[Nathan Evans]

i might have something in my portfolio that will help.

if i port it to java and use .contains instead of .equals it might help sift
through package names

which is the equiv of:

select * from sometable where somecolum like 'somevar';

something like this

for(String pname : pnameArray){
   for(String pname2 : pnameArray2){
        if( pname.conatins(pname2){
        return "Match";
   }
}

sort of thing, mind you thats very simplistic and would probably use more
complex logic.
but you catch my drift.
On 29 October 2010 13:08, Ian Johnson <itjohnson at gmail.com> wrote:

> Some sort of automation would definitely be nice, although because package
> names and organization differ between systems, I suspect a lot of manual
> sorting and evaluating will be necessary in the end. Of course, any way to
> streamline the process of sifting through thousands of packages several
> times over would be welcome...
> On Oct 29, 2010 11:55 AM, "Nathan Evans" <ndickinson.evans at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > I wonder if it would be worth the trouble to scrape names of the packages
> > from each of the distributions repositories.
> > Output each to a text file and compare them. That might make an
> interesting
> > study. see which packages are included in all the distributions and and
> > which are only included in each of their respective parents.
> >
> > It would definitely make choosing a distribution much easier. We could
> also
> > hold a poll to see which packages should be added via the website.
> >
> > "which would you like more."
> >
> > sort of deal.
> >
> > On 29 October 2010 04:49, Cia Watson <ciamarie at my180.net> wrote:
> >
> >> On Fri, 29 Oct 2010 09:43:10 -0400
> >> Ian Johnson <itjohnson at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> > I have been looking at this casually for my own purposes and would be
> >> > interested in working on it - I'm not much of a programmer, so this
> >> > is at least something I can do. I'm using OI on the desktop and the
> >> > absence of some common tools is particularly noticeable in that
> >> > capacity.
> >> >
> >> > This is a bit of a digression, but one of the major tools I can think
> >> > of right off is WebKit. <deleted>
> >>
> >> If you visit the spreadsheet
> >>
> >>
>
> https://spreadsheets0.google.com/ccc?key=tpU3GvToyo7F_zrxYIIla9Q&authkey=CLyhzsQD&hl=en&authkey=CLyhzsQD#gid=2
> >>
> >> you'll see there's a tab for 'wish list' which started with 2 items and
> >> I added another (KeePassX) since osol / OI has no decent password
> >> manager and that one is cross-platform. (i.e. the database created
> >> works in my linux installs though it was created in the Win version of
> >> keepass in Wine on osol). I'm also going to add flash-plugin to the
> >> list since I installed that in osol from the sun extra repo.
> >>
> >> Also while I'm typing about the spreadsheet, would it be acceptable to
> >> fill in some of the missing data for Fedora 13 or other when I boot to
> >> that, or is that strictly for data from distrowatch ? I wouldn't add
> >> rows or anything since I already made that mistake once. :-/ I had
> >> already filled in some of the missing Debian testing info.
> >>
> >> _______________________________________________
> >> OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list
> >> OpenIndiana-discuss at openindiana.org
> >> http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
> >>
> > _______________________________________________
> > OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list
> > OpenIndiana-discuss at openindiana.org
> > http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
> _______________________________________________
> OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list
> OpenIndiana-discuss at openindiana.org
> http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
>