whohas An open source command line tool that will help you query several package collections at once
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An open source command line tool that will help you query several package collections at once whohas is a command line tool that allows querying several package lists at once - currently supported are Fink, DarwinPorts, FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, Arch, Debian, Fedora (seems broken), Gentoo (Gentoo discontinued the package search interface), openSUSE, Slackware (and linuxpackages.net), Source Mage, Ubuntu. 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. However, whohas can also be used by normal users who want to know:· Which distribution provides packages on which the user depends.· What version of a given package is in use in each distribution, or in each release of a distribution (implemented only for Debian). What's New in This Release: · columns have been made wider to accommodate Debian's often excessively long version strings · netbsd, debian and ubuntu now report sizes · netbsd now reports dates · "--shallow" suppresses these fetches, which can be desirable as they are time-consuming and exert server load · all of these calls are threaded by default, can be disabled by "--no-threads" (same procedure as every year, James) · fixed fedora size formatting bug · now warns if distros specified are not recognised (thanks S Cotton for the bug report) · now honours proxies (thanks Thibaut Varene for the bug report, Jonathan Wiltshire for pointing out the fix) · Mandriva module added (thanks Sylvestre Ledru for pointing out the server)

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