[Koha-devel] Explainshell entry for koha package utilities (and thoughts about ubuntu repos)

[Barton Chittenden]

Chris,

Thanks for the links and the explanation!

--Barton

On Tue, Mar 19, 2019 at 7:31 PM Chris Cormack <chris at bigballofwax.co.nz>
wrote:

> Hi Barton
>
> Yes that is the long term plan, the best way to get into ubuntu is to
> get into debian, they pull stuff from there.
> Which is why we package everything and add to debian whereever we can.
>
> So we get it into debian for example
> https://qa.debian.org/developer.php?email=chrisc@catalyst.net.nz
>
> So they end up here
>
> https://packages.debian.org/source/stable/libbusiness-edifact-interchange-perl
>
> Which means they end up here
>
> https://packages.ubuntu.com/source/xenial/libbusiness-edifact-interchange-perl
>
> Now, there are a bunch of rules around copyright licenses etc, which I
> think we have nearly fixed and a few other things that would stop
> koha-common going into debian (and thus ubuntu)
> But the plan is to fix them, when we have time of course. We could
> maybe make that a push at the hackfest, or kohacon :)
>
> Chris
>
> On Wed, 20 Mar 2019 at 12:14, Barton Chittenden
> <barton at bywatersolutions.com> wrote:
> >
> > Explainshell.com is a very nifty site that will parse the man pages that
> they know about, and then tell you what a given command line does.
> >
> > For example, given the command line
> >
> > yaz-marcdump -i marc -o marc -f utf-8 -t marc8 -l 9=20
> filenametoconvert.mrc
> >
> > Explainshell will tell you what the -i, -o, -f, -t and -l options do:
> >
> >
> https://explainshell.com/explain?cmd=yaz-marcdump+-i+marc+-o+marc+-f+utf-8+-t+marc8+-l+9%3D20+filenametoconvert.mrc+%3E+c
> >
> > I honestly wasn't expecting it to know about yaz-marcdump.... but since
> it does, I tried koha-create... and it doesn't know about that.
> >
> > Apparently it looks at Ubuntu's man-page repository (
> http://manpages.ubuntu.com/) ... so ... we're not there.
> >
> > I don't know how much of a pain it is to get into, say, the ubuntu
> multiverse or ubuntu partner repos. I could see issues with some of our
> more bleeding edge dependencies... but it would be pretty awesome to just
> use a straight 'apt install koha' to get koha... and also to be able to use
> explainshell for koha-utilities.
> >
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