nkj feels I should warn people that large image files are linked to ahead.

1. Script
2. Whole grimoire or after going through dot
3. Installed spells or after going through dot
4. Resulting graph of installed spells (gif png)
5. Updated graph after gnome2 stuff is installed (dot png)

• dnetc: Distributed.net client.
• WXXT: I don't really know what this is. It's needed by linuxconf.
• linuxconf: linuxconf... Some hate it, most just don't care...
• gnome-linuxconf: Makes linuxconf usable
• garnome: A package for the Gnome 2 beta.
• mpgtx: MPeG ToolboX. Split, Join and stuff for MPEGs.
• libnet: Perl libs for gotmail to work.
• gotmail: Grabs email from your Hotmail account.
• YoSucker: Grabs email from your YahooMail account
• Zero-Install: Needs lazyfs
• EtherDam: A firewall progam

Note: linuxconf is not perfect. The standard modules work, but some (most? all?) of the extra modules complain of missing config info if you tell linuxcong to load them. Furthermore, none of the init script changing features are done by the spell. I toasted my system trying them so I disabled them.

I would put the linuxconf spell at an ALPHA level. It will not break your system... probably.

• Make progress meter. Shows how far make is rather than the normal make output.
• checkGrimoire checks the grimoire (or sections of it) for broken links.
• New spell script. To make creating new spells easy. Interactive and CLI. Makes DETAILS and DEPENDS, including optional_depends. Only for one SOURCE_URL ATM. Later I hope to have it check the URLs to make sure they are valid and add support for BUILD.
• Rebuild packages script. In case you delete your /var/state/sorcery/packages file ;)
• Depends Check your spells and depends s status file (/var/state/depends). Finds stale depends. An exhaustive check of all spells can be done with: depends_check.sh `find $GRIMOIRE -maxdepth 2 -mindepth 2 | awk -F '/' '{print $NF;}' | grep -v MAINTAINER`
• Update check your spells. This script reads the DETAILS file of spells and checks for newer versions of the source. Fairly simple right now, doesn't work with version that have numbers (ie 1.2rc1), and doesn't work if there are separate directories for versions (ie blah.com/1.2.3/foo-1.2.3.tar.bz2).
• Depends squisher takes a list of spells and outputs the order in which to cast them so dependancies are taken care of.
• Grimoire to HTML. Converts an arbitrary number of grimoires into a nice comparison table. Not of much use to users as no one uses more than one grimoire.
• System depends check. Checks for dependancies that have been dispelled.
• Verify DETAILS file. Check that necessary fields are there and the URLS are good.
• Verify DEPENDS file. Check that all depends, optional depends, and requires actualy exist.
• Versioning library is needed for DETAILS_valid.sh.
• Details_valid II... will replace the other once I'm done testing and fixing it.
• Update a spell quickly if only a version bum is required. Updated VERSION, UPDATED, and MD5 fields if they exist, otherwise they are added.
• Check grimoires for circular dependancies and incidentaly, missing spells.
• Find missing dependancies of spells with ldd.

The newspell tar also includes a script called quickList.sh. It is a faster way of checking to see if a spell exists if you are checking for several spells. Uses a binary search for the first letter, then a linear search through all spells with the same first letter. Perhaps you can find a better way of doing this, I cannot.

And as always, if you find a way to improve on my stuff, feel free to send me a patch. If you have a suggestion but can't write it yourself, send it to me and I'll see what I can do.

listLibDepends.sh is a script to find missing and extra dependencies in spells. It uses information from ldd to find most of the things the binaries need at runtime. Please note, it doesn't know anything about compile time dependencies, and doesn't know anything about programs that use dlopen and friends so it is not in any way perfect, but should help find the most common problems.

listLibDepends.txt is example output from 2005-06-08 when run with --elf-indirect on my whole installed spell list.