whohas – Command-line utility for cross-distro, cross-repository package search
47 points by peter_d_sherman 3 hours ago | 10 comments
dilawar 33 seconds ago
There is also https://pkgs.org ..
replychb 2 hours 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.
replyIntralexical 43 minutes ago
Does it still work, though?
replyWhere else would you put the repository domains?
bblb 36 minutes ago
This kind of busy work should suit an AI agent:
replyGo 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.
embedding-shape 5 minutes ago
Or you know, you could do that with a ~100 long script. You don't have to use LLMs for everything, especially when you're not dealing with freeform text at all, use data types and data structures, we've created the concepts for a reason.
replyFnoord 2 hours ago
Latest release: May 19, 2015
replyAbandoned, 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.
RunningDroid 50 minutes ago
> Probably nowadays this gets done in Node, parsing the package search websites. Preferably, this would be done via an API though.
replyRepology provides an API but it's unstable: https://repology.org/api/v1
lschueller 2 hours ago
Yes, agree. The idea and concept is cool! Imo worth it to keep an eye on it and play with it.
replyFirst 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.