Puppy Linux Discussion Forum

[mavrothal]

I find that searching for a pet one repo at the time and only for pet names with a single (part of a) word, may not be optimal.

So I modified PPM a bit, originally in Saluki and more in XOpup (mostly the findnames.sh script), so you can:
1) use up to 3 descriptive terms to search with (no wild cards necessary)
2) search in both pet names and pet descriptions combined.
3) search only the repo you specify or all the repos selected in “PPM configuration > Choose repositories” (the ones shown in the PPM window), simultaneously.

The attached pet is for the latest Woof/Racy/Wary/Slacko but may work with other puplets too.

For Luci 528.005 or earlier, the XOpup pet v4 works just fine (though will change a bit the GUI window)

See if you like this new functionality, if it is giving you any problems and/or unexpected behavior or if you can just crash it.

Developers may want to take a look at the attached Racy_petget.patch.gz for adaptation to other puppies, but most important, for code improvement

Note:The pet is not a standalone PPM replacement. Will only update 3 files in the /usr/local/petget folder. So, you must have a functional PPM to update.

Version 2 will also check if repos are older than 1 week old and offer to update them.

[gcmartin]

@Mavrothal.

This is a giant step forward. And, a welcomed addition for those of us wo rely on the PPM as the means for adding functionality to PUPs. Thanks for adding this needed addition.

I haven't tested as of yet. I am confused as to whether I should get a V2 PET or if I should get V2 "cumulative" for my SLACKO V5.3.3PAE. What do you recommend?

Thanks in advance

[mavrothal]

The only difference between v1 and v2 is that v2 checks if the repos are more than a week old and recommends updates.
I prefer v2 but other people may not want to bother.

BTW works in all puppies that are build with a recent woof.

[gcmartin]

[mavrothal]