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+#!/usr/bin/perl
+# -----------------------------------------------------------------
+#  FreeBSD Release Checking Utility - Package Index Check
+#
+#  This program checks the packages/INDEX file to verify that
+#  the index is in the correct format and that every package
+#  needed by a release is included on the CD.
+#
+#  Copyright(c) 2000 BSDi
+#  Murray Stokely
+# -----------------------------------------------------------------
+# 08 Apr 2000
+#
+# $FreeBSD$
+#
+
+use Getopt::Long;
+
+#
+# Display the usage instructions
+#
+
+sub printHelp {
+    print<<end;
+usage : checkindex -s <sysinstall src dir> <INDEX>
+
+  This program checks the packages INDEX file to verify that the 
+index is correct and that every package needed by sysinstall is
+included in the index.
+
+  Options
+
+     -help                Display usage instructions
+     -s <src dir>         Specify the sysinstall source directory.  Use
+	                  this so to make sure every package referenced
+                          in the code is in your INDEX
+     -newindex            Generate a new index consisting of only those
+                          packages that actually exist in pkgdir/All
+     -depends <pkg>       Lists all packages in the index that depend
+                          on <pkg>.
+
+end
+}
+
+##
+## Attempts to find the value of a variable in C code by backtracking
+## up the source looking for a previous declaration.
+## 
+## This is a bit overkill for the purpose of this script,
+## stick with grepping for likely packages for now.
+
+sub findAssignment($$) {
+	    ## This code deals with the small (5%) number of matches
+	    ## in which package_add refers to a variable rather than
+	    ## a inline string, so we have to find the value of that
+	    ## variable so that we can push it onto the list
+#	    my($fileName,$code) = split(/:/,$match);
+#	    open(FILE,$fileName) || die "Could not open $fileName : $!\n";
+#	    my(@lines) = <FILE>;
+#	    my($cnt)  = 1;
+#	    my($lineMatch) = 0;
+#	    chomp(@lines);
+#	    foreach $line (@lines) {
+#		$lineMatch = $cnt if ($line eq $code);
+#		$cnt++;
+#	    }
+#	    $code =~ /package_add\((\S+)\)/;
+#	    my($varName) = $1;
+#	    print STDERR "$lineMatch of $fileName is wierd\n";
+#	    print STDERR "Trying to find '$varName'\n";
+#	    while ($cnt > 0) {
+#		$cnt--;
+#	    }
+
+
+}
+
+##
+## Returns a list of all the packages referenced in the sysinstall source
+## code
+##
+
+sub getPackages($) {
+    my($srcDir) = $_[0];
+    my(@matches) = `grep package_add $opt_s/*.c`;
+    my(@packages);
+    foreach $match (@matches) {
+	chomp $match;
+	next if ($match =~ m|$opt_s/package.c|);
+	if ($match =~ /package_add\(\"(\S+)\"\)/) {
+	    push(@packages,$1);
+	} elsif ($match =~ /package_add\(char/) {
+	    # function definition or prototype
+	    next;
+	} else {
+	    # package_add(variable or DEFINE)
+	    my(@varMatches) = `grep variable_set2 $opt_s/*.c`;
+	    chomp @varMatches;
+	    foreach $varMatch (@varMatches) {
+		if ($varMatch =~ /variable_set2\(\S+_PACKAGE,\s+\"(\S+)\"/) {
+		    push(@packages,$1);
+		}
+	    }
+	}
+    }
+    @packages;
+}
+
+
+&GetOptions("help","s=s","newindex","depends=s");
+if ($opt_help) {
+    &printHelp;
+} else{
+    my ($indexName) = $ARGV[0];
+    my ($mistakes) = 0;
+    my ($counter)  = 0;
+    print STDERR "Packages Referenced :\n---------------------\n";
+    open(INDEX,$indexName) || die "Could not open $indexName : $!";
+    @index = <INDEX>;
+    close(INDEX);
+
+    ## Check to ensure that every file in the index exists physically.
+    print STDERR "Check to ensure that every file in the index exists physically\n";
+    foreach $line (@index) {
+	chomp $line;
+	($file,$pathto,$prefix,$comment,$descr,$maint,$cats,$junk,$rdeps,$junk) = split(/\|/,$line,10);
+	$DEPENDS{$file} = $rdeps if (-e "All/$file.tgz");
+    }
+
+    if ($opt_newindex) {
+	foreach $pkg (keys %DEPENDS) {
+	    $new = quotemeta $pkg;
+	    @lines = grep(/^$new\|/,@index);
+	    chomp $lines;
+	    ($#lines == 0) || die "Multiple lines for '$pkg' in index!";
+	    printf "%s\n",$lines[0];
+	}
+    } elsif ($opt_depends) {
+	foreach $key (keys %DEPENDS) {
+	    foreach $dependency (split ' ',$DEPENDS{$key}) {
+		if ($opt_depends eq $dependency) {
+		    print "$opt_depends is needed by $key\n";
+		    $counter++;
+		}
+	    }
+	}
+	print "$opt_depends is not needed by any packages in the index!\n"
+	    unless ($counter);
+    } else {
+
+    ## Check to ensure that all the dependencies are there.
+    print "Check to make sure that every dependency of every file exists\n",
+  	"in the Index and physically.\n";
+    foreach $file (keys %DEPENDS) {
+#	print "Checking $file\n";
+	foreach $depend (split(' ',$DEPENDS{$file})) {
+	    unless (-e "All/$depend.tgz") {
+		# instead of a hash counter, make it a hash of arrays
+		# where the arrays are the files depended on.
+		push @{ $MISSING{$depend} }, $file;
+		$mistakes++;
+	    }
+	}
+    }
+
+    ## This makes sure that the index file contains everything
+    ## that sysinstall uses.
+    if ($opt_s) {
+	@packages = getPackages($opt_s);
+	foreach $pkg (@packages) {
+	    unless (grep(/^$pkg/,@index)) {
+		push @{ $MISSING{$pkg} }, "sysinstall";
+		$mistakes++;
+	    }
+	}
+    }
+
+
+    ## If there were mistakes, print out the missing packages.
+    if ($mistakes) {
+	print "--------------------------------------------------------\n",
+	      " Packages Missing : \n",
+              "--------------------------------------------------------\n";
+	foreach $pkg (keys %MISSING) {
+	    @files = @{ $MISSING{$pkg} };
+	    print "$pkg (@files)\n";
+	}
+    } else {
+	print "Everything looks good!\n";
+    }
+}
+}