Re: Where is patch?

[Bruce Korb]

Stepan Kasal wrote:

> Development versions are on alpha.gnu.org.  You can get patch 2.5.9 from
> ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/diffutils/.  I admit this is confusing, there should
> be ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/patch/, at least with a readme file.

That would only solve the problem for the program, "patch".
It would be extremely useful for there to be a CGI page that could
map program names, library call names, etc. to projects.
All you need is a consistent way for projects to feed the relevant
data to the database.  :)  eg:

   tar -xzvf ${projtarball}
   cd ${project}*
   ./configure --prefix=/tmp/${project}
   make
   make install

   # find all the documented things this project provides
   #
   echo ${project} $(
       find /tmp/${project}/man -type f | \
           sed 's,.*/,,;s,\..*,,'
       ) > ../${project}.provides

or do something equivalent with .texi files.  :)

Cheers - Bruce