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!
Hi there, how or why do you use the rmadision plugin while doing support in #ubuntu? What does it help you to do? Thanks.
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.