whohas

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January 16, 2010podcast at 9:17 pm

Posted by: Amit Agarwal under Linux
Tags: Command-line interface, Debian, FreeBSD, Gentoo Linux, GIMP, Graphics, gtk, Slackware

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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 gimp

FreeBSD pidgin-pidgimpd 1.1.1 net-im http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/pds.cgi?ports/net-im/pidgin-pidgimpd

FreeBSD gimp-gutenprint 5.2.4 print http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/pds.cgi?ports/print/gimp-gutenprint

FreeBSD gtk 1.2.10_21 x11-toolkit http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/pds.cgi?ports/x11-toolkits/gtk

FreeBSD gtk 2.18.5 x11-toolkit http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/pds.cgi?ports/x11-toolkits/gtk

Gentoo gimp 9999 http://gentoo-portage.com/media-gfx/gimp

Gentoo gimp 2.6.8 http://gentoo-portage.com/media-gfx/gimp

Gentoo gimp 2.6.7-r1 http://gentoo-portage.com/media-gfx/gimp

Gentoo gimp 2.6.7 http://gentoo-portage.com/media-gfx/gimp

Gentoo gimp 2.6.6 http://gentoo-portage.com/media-gfx/gimp

Gentoo gimp 2.6.5 http://gentoo-portage.com/media-gfx/gimp

Gentoo gimp 2.6.4 http://gentoo-portage.com/media-gfx/gimp

Gentoo gimp 2.4.7 http://gentoo-portage.com/media-gfx/gimp

Gentoo gimp 2.4.6 http://gentoo-portage.com/media-gfx/gimp

Gentoo gimp 2.3.19 http://gentoo-portage.com/media-gfx/gimp

Gentoo gimp-greycstoration 2.9 http://gentoo-portage.com/media-plugins/gimp-greycstoration

Gentoo gimp-greycstoration 2.8 http://gentoo-portage.com/media-plugins/gimp-greycstoration

Gentoo gimp-greycstoration 1.2.7 http://gentoo-portage.com/media-plugins/gimp-greycstoration

Gentoo gimp-perl 2.2_pre1 http://gentoo-portage.com/dev-perl/gimp-perl

Gentoo gimp-help 2.6.0-r1 http://gentoo-portage.com/app-doc/gimp-help

Gentoo gimp-help 2.4.2 http://gentoo-portage.com/app-doc/gimp-help

Gentoo gimp-user-manual 2.0 http://gentoo-portage.com/app-doc/gimp-user-manual

Gentoo gtk+ 2.18.5 http://gentoo-portage.com/x11-libs/gtk+

Gentoo gtk+ 2.16.6 http://gentoo-portage.com/x11-libs/gtk+

Gentoo gtk+ 2.14.7-r2 http://gentoo-portage.com/x11-libs/gtk+

Gentoo gtk+ 2.12.12 http://gentoo-portage.com/x11-libs/gtk+

Gentoo gtk+ 2.12.11 http://gentoo-portage.com/x11-libs/gtk+

This can be very useful for maintainers and people who experiment with a lot of packages. This will enable them to quickly search various Architectures and the flavors of linux to see what is available.