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whohas – Command-line utility for cross-distro, cross-repository package search

https://github.com/whohas/whohas
43•peter_d_sherman•1h ago

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peter_d_sherman•1h ago
Related:

List of linux package search databases:

https://github.com/sxiii/awesome-package-search

chb•1h ago
First I saw that it's written in Perl. Then I realized that the last release was 11 years ago and that the repository domains are hardcoded in the one-file script.
Intralexical•23m ago
Does it still work, though?

Where else would you put the repository domains?

Fnoord•58m ago
Latest release: May 19, 2015

Abandoned, but forkable (since FOSS), and a decent idea.

Probably nowadays this gets done in Node, parsing the package search websites. Preferably, this would be done via an API though.

lschueller•46m ago
Yes, agree. The idea and concept is cool! Imo worth it to keep an eye on it and play with it.

First thought, which came to my mind, was a security use case to get it to a point for sbom handling and tracking. In particular, respective to all the recent package vulnerabilities.

RunningDroid•31m ago
> Probably nowadays this gets done in Node, parsing the package search websites. Preferably, this would be done via an API though.

Repology provides an API but it's unstable: https://repology.org/api/v1

yjftsjthsd-h•23m ago
This would pair nicely with distrobox or Bedrock Linux:)
bblb•17m ago
This kind of busy work should suit an AI agent:

Go and find me all the repolists and package/software metadata for any distro and OS ever released. Write the results to a local SQLite. Incrementally update, but don't hammer the sources to death. Provide a web UI and CLI.

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