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Re: [gNewSense-users] Would this script be useful to clean up Package fi


From: Karl Goetz
Subject: Re: [gNewSense-users] Would this script be useful to clean up Package files?
Date: Sun, 18 May 2008 13:38:00 +0930

On Sat, 2008-05-17 at 23:13 -0400, Bake Timmons wrote:
> > Just wondering - what is getting filtered exactly?
> 
> Sorry for mangling my words at that late hour.
> 
> Given the contents of a package file, any "Suggests:" or "Recommends:"
> lines are stripped of any names of packages with no installation
> candidate, e.g., non-free packages.
> 
> Attached is a little (lightly tested) filter script.  Time for me to
> file a bug on this, as Sam suggested.

I think i follow :)

I take it the usage would be server side while generating
Packages[,.gz,.bz2], before pushing to the mirror?

> 
-- 
Karl Goetz,
Debian user / Ubuntu contributor / gNewSense contributor
http://www.kgoetz.id.au

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