Automatic installation documentation

[Phil]

On Wed, 27 Feb 2002, Chad C. Walstrom wrote:

> On Wed, Feb 27, 2002 at 01:28:05PM +0100, Phil wrote:
> > I've begun to write sth that output a LaTeX report giving details
> > about the hardware...[snipped for brevity]...
>
> Very cool.  Perl or Python?  Parsing the fai install logs?

It's bash for the moment (just a proof of concept :)).
Maybe perl is a good choice,.. but I like python too much :)

It just gathers informations on the machine. There is nothing related
directly to FAI, but it could.

Little ugly extract :

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cat << EOF
\appendix

\chapter{Liste des paquetages et de leur version}
\label{anx.packages}
%% Generated with
%% grep -E "^(Package:|Version:|Status:|$)" < /var/lib/dpkg/status | awk
'BEGIN{RS="\n\n";FS="( |\n)"} ; {if (\$6 == "installed") {print \$2,\$8}}'

\begin{twocolumn}
\small
\begin{verbatim}
EOF

grep -E "^(Package:|Version:|Status:|$)" < /var/lib/dpkg/status | \
 awk 'BEGIN{RS="\n\n";FS="( |\n)"} ; {if ($6 == "installed") {print $2,$8}}'

cat <<EOF
\end{verbatim}
\end{twocolumn}
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>     #!/bin/sh
>     dpkg=/bin/dpkg
>
>     # Set the column width
>     COLUMNS=132
>     export COLUMNS
>
>     # Run dpkg -l
>     $dpkg -l $@

Thanks for the COLUMNS trick!
The code above will become
COLUMNS=1000 dpkg -l | awk '/^ii/{print $2 $3}'


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