Finding homepage via Mandriva

Finding homepage via Mandriva

Ah ha, can find an application's home page via Mandriva package documentation. For the 'make' package, first go here:

http://club.mandriva.com/xwiki/bin/view/rpms/Application/make

Follow "View package information" link:

http://club.mandriva.com/xwiki/bin/view/rpms/Package/8/make

Brings up a page, with "Homepage: http://www.gnu.org/directory/GNU/make.html"

...should be do-able to follow those links in a script?

Note, I'm using TEA right now, in Intrepid Puppy alpha3, to compose this post, works fine, but probably want the font size one point bigger.

Note, I'm considering adding an RPM-based distro to Woof, and favouring Mandriva. Partly because of fond memories back when I used Mandrake Linux!
The "club" thing is a bit of a concern though, if it restricts access to online information.

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Comments

Mandr(insert whatever here)
Username: 01micko
I used to love Mandrake. No one could sway me. I do not like Mandriva... but I love your idea! Maybne PCLinuxOS? I dunno!

Re: finding pkg homepage
Username: BarryK
"This works: [code]#!/bin/sh [ ! $1 ] && exit PKGNAME="$1" rm -f /tmp/gethomepage_1 2>/dev/null wget --tries=2 --output-document=/tmp/gethomepage_1 http://club.mandriva.com/xwiki/bin/view/rpms/Application/$PKGNAME LINK1="`grep 'View package information' /tmp/gethomepage_1 | head -n 1 | grep -o 'href=".*' | cut -f 2 -d '"'`" wget --tries=2 --output-document=/tmp/gethomepage_2 http://club.mandriva.com/xwiki/bin/view/rpms/Application/${LINK1} HOMELINK="`grep 'Homepage:' /tmp/gethomepage_2 | grep -o 'href=".*' | cut -f 2 -d '"'`" echo "HOMELINK=$HOMELINK" [/code] Using TEA to write this script has brought up some more problems: 1. I opened a file (HTML) but the color syntax was not automatically guessed. But, there is no way to manually choose it. That's disappointing. 2. A file was open in TEA. It changed, but TEA does not detect a changed file, nor was there any manual-reload menu item. Again, disappointing. Anyway, I now know how to locate a package's homepage, so that will go into the Package Manager, for alpha4 (as I have already uploaded alpha3, will announce it soon).

Tea for none
Username: BarryK
"I'm also disappointed that it doesn't seem to have an option to view non-printing characters, like tabs. Grumble, grumble... oh well, I'll have a play with Medit next.

Tags: woof