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| Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, October 19 2012 @ 04:44 PM EDT |
certainly searches both local and remote files.
It even keeps a history, which would be relevant for some
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| Authored by: pogson on Friday, October 19 2012 @ 10:32 PM EDT |
I use apt-cache all the time to search for software packages
in Debian GNU/Linux. It can search file names or description
names and the sources of the data can be local copies of
remote stuff.
e.g. apt-cache search games|grep children
childsplay - Suite of educational games for young children
gcompris - Educational games for small children
If the actual package is not stored locally, APT can fetch
from a remote server. I can update the local indexes with
apt-get update
and the indexes from the remote servers are copied to my
local machine. Sources can be multiple and the results of a
search are merged to do the right thing.
APT might not scale well but its functionality fits:
apt-cache stats
Total package names: 47892 (958 k)
Total package structures: 47892 (2,682 k)
Normal packages: 36493
Pure virtual packages: 334
Single virtual packages: 4396
Mixed virtual packages: 1036
Missing: 5633
Total distinct versions: 37656 (2,711 k)
Total distinct descriptions: 74746 (1,794 k)
Total dependencies: 223157 (6,248 k)
Total ver/file relations: 39712 (953 k)
Total Desc/File relations: 74746 (1,794 k)
Total Provides mappings: 7511 (150 k)
Total globbed strings: 155 (1,683 )
Total dependency version space: 878 k
Total slack space: 53.2 k
Total space accounted for: 12.8 M
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