List of functionalities

access via web

• a "unique" url to remember : http://sophie.zarb.org
• search for a rpm displays matching rpms :
  • exact rpm name (fast), matching rpm name (longer), having this source, filename, in summary, in description, matching provide, matching require, matching obsolete, matching conflict, matching trigger
• advanced search :
  • http://sophie.zarb.org/rpmfind
  • to select by version, arch, media name and/or branch
• information displayed for the rpm :
  • Main information, Maintainers, Description, Location (perm link), Additional information, Files ( /o\ can be long), Dependencies (provides, requires, conflicts, obsoletes), Scripts (prein, postin, postun), Changelog
• retrieve a permanent url to latest package :
  • for glibc in cooker i586 you can type http://sophie.zarb.org/rpm/cooker,i586/glibc
  • see wiki:Bookmarks for explanation http://sophie.zarb.org/[s]rpm/[[version],[arch]]|[all]/name,[version[-release]]
• identify dependancies of a package : example of dependancies of glibc
• draw dependances of a package (using SVG) : example of dependancies' graph with glibc
• see screenshot below (never forget screenshots to make a documentation interesting)
• navigation in dependances by clicking in the svg on the box of a package (works in konqueror and firefox >= 1.5)
• last but not least as I'm fond of statistics : http://sophie.zarb.org/stat to get the number of packages by distribution, media , arch (more graphical than http://qa.mandriva.com/twiki/bin/view/Main/ReleasesHistory )
• navigation in a distribution :
  • Menu / Distrib http://sophie.zarb.org/test/distrib
  • by rpm name to see all packages alphabetically : e.g. http://sophie.zarb.org/test/distrib/cooker,i586/?fl=O#pkglist for letter O
  • by group to see all packages in a group : e.g. http://sophie.zarb.org/test/distrib/cooker,i586/group?see=Sciences%2FMathematics&submit= for Science/Mathematics

access via irc bot

• Available commands:
  • a arch asv auth b builddate buildfrom buildhost buildtime cookie d da distrib distribution dv file files findfile findfiles g group h help history host l license login maint maintainer more nb_rpm p packager past q qf rpmbuildversion rpmversion s sig signature size sourcerpm src summary u url v vendor version what
• type :h to call Sophie privately
• type :v wormux -v 2006.0 to obtain the version number of wormux in 2006.0 and know in which media(s) it appears
• type :help <command> to obtain a more detailed help about the command
• you can meet Sophie on freenode #mandrivafr #mandriva-cooker and some other places...

screenshots

• display of the dependancies' graph

http://sophie.zarb.org/rpm/cooker,i586/glibc/graph/cooker,i586.png

• other screenshots...