On 8 Jul 2003, seth vidal wrote:
> so maybe 40 chars for the Name, 6 chars for the Arch, 15 chars for the
> version-rel so the last 18 or so (79char line) for repo?
>
> Sound reasonable to everyone? I could just push everything over from the
ummm -- whitespace rather than fixed columns works just fine
as a separator. it may be less vissually pleasing, though.
real stats on file name length
24 bonobo-activation-devel
24 redhat-config-kickstart
26 desktop-backgrounds-basic
26 redhat-config-printer-gui
31 XFree86-ISO8859-15-75dpi-fonts
32 XFree86-ISO8859-15-100dpi-fonts
bash-2.05b$
from this (the script is suitable for cut and paste, if
others want to report):
bash-2.05b$ rpm -qa --qf '%{name}\n' > /tmp/rpm-qa-name.txt
bash-2.05b$ ./farRPMname.php | sort -n
bash-2.05b$ cat farRPMname.php
#!/usr/bin/php -c/etc
<?php
// yum RPM package name length stats tool
// Copyright (c) 2003 Owl River Company
// info@xxxxxxxxxxxx
//
// remember to chmod 755 farRPMname.php
//
// driver table
$driver = "/tmp/rpm-qa-name.txt";
if (file_exists($driver)) {
$fp = fopen($driver,"r");
while(!feof($fp)) {
$content = fgets($fp,1024);
$slen = strlen($content);
print "$slen $content\n";
}
fclose($fp);
}
?>
bash-2.05b$
