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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers GNU and Linux: Different or the same? Post 37445 by Minnesota Red on Wednesday 18th of June 2003 11:55:18 PM

06-19-2003

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ok so debian is classified as gnu/linux, which means it uses gnu's system, but linux's kernel. AND redhat is just linux... so does that mean it uses linux's system and kernel? SO really, debian would appear to be something totally different, because it uses a different system.

One thing I dont get is the name... GNU means Gnu Not Linux...?
That makes no sense. Thats like saying a cookie is comprized of a cookie, plus chocolate chips.

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linux::distribution::packages

Linux::Distribution::Packages(3pm)			User Contributed Perl Documentation			Linux::Distribution::Packages(3pm)

NAME

       Linux::Distribution::Packages - list all packages on various Linux distributions

SYNOPSIS

	 use Linux::Distribution::Packages qw(distribution_packages distribution_write);

	 $linux = new Linux::Distribution::Packages({'format' => 'csv', 'output_file' => 'packages.csv'});
	 $linux->distribution_write();

	 # Or you can (re)set the options when you write.
	 $linux->distribution_write({'format' => 'xml', 'output_file' => 'packages.xml'});

	 # If you want to reload the package data
	 $linux->distribution_packages();

DESCRIPTION

       This is a simple module that uses Linux::Distribution to guess the linux distribution and then uses the correct commands to list all the
       packages on the system and then output them in one of three formats:  native, csv, and xml.

       Distributions currently working:  debian, ubuntu, fedora, redhat, suse, gentoo, slackware, redflag.

       The module inherits from Linux::Distribution, so can also use its calls.

   EXPORT
       None by default.

TODO

       * Add the capability to correctly get packages for all recognized distributions.  * Seperate out parsing from writing.  Parse data to hash
       and give access to hash.  Then write the formatted data from the hash.

AUTHORS

       Judith Lebzelter, <judith@osdl.org> Alberto Re, <alberto@accidia.net>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

       This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself, either Perl version 5.8.5 or,
       at your option, any later version of Perl 5 you may have available.

perl v5.10.1							    2006-04-19					Linux::Distribution::Packages(3pm)