[OT] Fun with walking package licenses

[Mike McCarty]

Andy Green wrote:

This is cute. However...

[snip]

>  if [ ! -z "$pkg" ] ; then
>   rpm -q --queryformat "%{NAME}-%{VERSION} %{LICENSE}" $pkg
>  else
>   echo "($1 is unpackaged)"
>  fi
>  echo
> fi
> 
> #echo Depth $depth
> 
> LIST1=`ldd $1 | tr -s ' ' | cut -d' ' -f 3 | grep ^/`
> for i in $LIST1 ; do 
>  package=`rpm -q --whatprovides $i`
>  if [ -z "`grep $i /tmp/lider-list`" ] ; then
>  echo -n "$i " >>/tmp/lider-list
>  rpm -q --queryformat "%{NAME}-%{VERSION} %{LICENSE} \n" $package | head -n1 >>/tmp/lider-list
>   $0 $i $(( $depth + 1 ))
>  fi
> done

[snip]

You have a defect hiding in there. When I run it on a little
program or two I wrote in C, I get this output...

$ lider bin/keys
package no is not installed
package package is not installed
package provides is not installed
package bin/keys is not installed

Dependent Licenses
------------------
LGPL

Dependent Packages
------------------
glibc-2.3.3 LGPL

Dependent libs
--------------
/lib/ld-linux.so.2 glibc-2.3.3 LGPL
/lib/tls/libc.so.6 glibc-2.3.3 LGPL

Mike
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