Matching package names across distributions

Enrico Zini enrico at enricozini.org
Fri Feb 4 03:14:44 PST 2011


On Wed, Feb 02, 2011 at 05:36:18PM -0500, James Antill wrote:

>  I tried it, but it didn't go as well as I'd hoped (some of the
> "failures" below could just be weird UI from the distromatch command):
> 
> % ./distromatch/distromatch fedora xapian-bindings-python     
> fedora:xapian-bindings-python debian:
> fedora:xapian-bindings-python mandriva:xapian-bindings-python
> fedora:xapian-bindings-python suse:
[...]
> % ./distromatch/distromatch fedora openssl
> fedora:openssl debian:openssl
> fedora:openssl mandriva:libopenssl0.9.8,libopenssl1.0.0,openssl
> fedora:openssl suse:compat-openssl097g,libopenssl0_9_8,openssl
> ...it also doesn't seem to understand multilib. so you can find out that
> blah.x86_64 on Fedora is libblah62.x86_64 on SuSE, but you can't find
> out that blah.i686 is libblah62-32bit.x86_64.

Thanks, some validation of the results was greatly needed and the
examples you found are very valuable. I'll add them to the test case
during the week-end.


Ciao,

Enrico

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