AptFs - FUSE filesystem for APT source repositories
(This was one of those pesky “oh, it’ll only take an hour” ideas.)
AptFs is a FUSE-based filesystem that provides a view to unpacked and patched Debian source packages as regular folders on a filesystem. Binary packages are modelled as symbolic links pointing to their respective source package.
This arrangement allows one to:
- Use standard UNIX utilities to perform queries across the entire Debian source tree
- Save keystrokes and time when downloading (and subsequently deleting) source packages
- Do really awesome things easily, like perform static analysis on the archive, count swear words, etc.
The program maintains a sliding window of unpacked packages to perform automatic cleanup of unpacked packages — it would not be very helpful if commands such as
% find /path/to/aptfs…unpacked the entire archive into your temporary directory.
Source (GPLv3) is available in Git:
% git-clone git://git.chris-lamb.co.uk/aptfs # or
% git-clone http://git.chris-lamb.co.uk/repo/aptfs.gitPatches always welcome, and shout if you like it; I’ll file an ITP and try and upload it.
Timeline of the Debian project
I’ve put together a partial timeline of the Debian project using the SIMILE Project’s DHTML timeline component.
This is definately work in progress: I would welcome additional events (by email or merge request please, not via blog comments) regarding:
- Dates of the earlier Debian releases
- Release freezes
- Interesting dates of important packages and tools (Linux kernel, XFree86/X.Org, glibc, aptitude, etc.)
The timeline is available to view here.
Update: Assistance fixing the (non-Webkit) Konqueror issue would also be appreciated.
