whohas
2010-01-16
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Description: whohas is a command line tool that allows querying several package lists at once – currently supported are Arch, Debian, Gentoo and Slackware. whohas is written in Perl and was designed to help package maintainers find ebuilds, pkgbuilds and similar package definitions from other distributions to learn from.Example output for
whohas gimpFreeBSD pidgin-pidgimpd 1.1.1 net-im http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/pds.cgi?ports/net-im/pidgin-pidgimpd<div> FreeBSD gimp-gutenprint 5.2.4 print http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/pds.cgi?ports/print/gimp-gutenprint </div> <div> FreeBSD gtk 1.2.10_21 x11-toolkit http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/pds.cgi?ports/x11-toolkits/gtk </div> <div> FreeBSD gtk 2.18.5 x11-toolkit http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/pds.cgi?ports/x11-toolkits/gtk </div> <div> Gentoo gimp 9999 http://gentoo-portage.com/media-gfx/gimp </div> <div> Gentoo gimp 2.6.8 http://gentoo-portage.com/media-gfx/gimp </div> <div> Gentoo gimp 2.6.7-r1 http://gentoo-portage.com/media-gfx/gimp </div> <div> Gentoo gimp 2.6.7 http://gentoo-portage.com/media-gfx/gimp </div> <div> Gentoo gimp 2.6.6 http://gentoo-portage.com/media-gfx/gimp </div> <div> Gentoo gimp 2.6.5 http://gentoo-portage.com/media-gfx/gimp </div> <div> Gentoo gimp 2.6.4 http://gentoo-portage.com/media-gfx/gimp </div> <div> Gentoo gimp 2.4.7 http://gentoo-portage.com/media-gfx/gimp </div> <div> Gentoo gimp 2.4.6 http://gentoo-portage.com/media-gfx/gimp </div> <div> Gentoo gimp 2.3.19 http://gentoo-portage.com/media-gfx/gimp </div> <div> Gentoo gimp-greycstoration 2.9 http://gentoo-portage.com/media-plugins/gimp-greycstoration </div> <div> Gentoo gimp-greycstoration 2.8 http://gentoo-portage.com/media-plugins/gimp-greycstoration </div> <div> Gentoo gimp-greycstoration 1.2.7 http://gentoo-portage.com/media-plugins/gimp-greycstoration </div> <div> Gentoo gimp-perl 2.2_pre1 http://gentoo-portage.com/dev-perl/gimp-perl </div> <div> Gentoo gimp-help 2.6.0-r1 http://gentoo-portage.com/app-doc/gimp-help </div> <div> Gentoo gimp-help 2.4.2 http://gentoo-portage.com/app-doc/gimp-help </div> <div> Gentoo gimp-user-manual 2.0 http://gentoo-portage.com/app-doc/gimp-user-manual </div> <div> Gentoo <a class=\"zem_slink freebase/en/gtkplus\" title=\"GTK+\" rel=\"homepage\" href=\"http://www.gtk.org/\">gtk+</a> 2.18.5 http://gentoo-portage.com/x11-libs/gtk+ </div> <div> Gentoo gtk+ 2.16.6 http://gentoo-portage.com/x11-libs/gtk+ </div> <div> Gentoo gtk+ 2.14.7-r2 http://gentoo-portage.com/x11-libs/gtk+ </div> <div> Gentoo gtk+ 2.12.12 http://gentoo-portage.com/x11-libs/gtk+ </div> <div> Gentoo gtk+ 2.12.11 http://gentoo-portage.com/x11-libs/gtk+ </div>
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