Firefox rmadison Plugin
While my laptop was under the knife during the past week or so, I was using my Linode to get my Ubuntu fix. Although I have quite a bit of space free, I wanted to avoid installing extra packages that I would only end up using while my other computer was out of commission.
One such package was devscripts; I make heavy use of the rmadison command when doing support in #ubuntu. While I could probably have easily just used the basic interface for searching, I wanted something a bit nicer. I settled for using Mozilla’s Mycroft to create a SearchPlugin that could be added to Firefox’s search bar.
The plugin itself can be found here.
I’ve always found rmadison quite slow. I wonder if anything can be done to speed it up!
Useful, though!
Comment by Hobbsee — December 3, 2008 @ 7:58 pm
Hi there, how or why do you use the rmadision plugin while doing support in #ubuntu? What does it help you to do? Thanks.
Comment by Jim Campbell — December 4, 2008 @ 11:09 am
Its handy to find out which releases included which packages. For example, looking to see what release last shipped php4. Or if someone is looking for a specific version if that is included in release X.
Comment by bnrubin — December 11, 2008 @ 1:40 pm