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#!/usr/bin/perl -w

# This Perl script takes the individual '.zip' files downloaded from t
+he ActiveState 'ppm' repository
# and uses them to generate a local 'ppm' repository.

# Perl scripting is required because the individual packages in the '.
+zip' files have duplicate file names.
# Each archive has a 'README' file which is discarded.
# Each archive also has a 'ppd' file containing the package descriptio
+n.
# Where there are several versions of a package in the archive the '.t
+ar.gz' files are uniquely named
# but the 'ppd' files are not. This scrip therefore renames the 'ppd' 
+files to match the '.tar.gz' files.

# The archives are unzipped to a work area using 7-zip (7z.exe) and th
+e '.ppd' file is then copied to the
# local repository, being renamed if necessary during the copy. The 'p
+pd' file in the work area is then deleted.
# The '.tar.gz' files should all go into the same subsidiary directory
+.
# Therefore this directory is only copied once, at the end of processi
+ng.
# In fact, all subsidiary directories are copied, but it is assumed th
+at there will be only one.

# Be warned that this code is dangerous!
# There is only limited sanity checking so you could do all sorts of d
+amage by careless use!!!!

# Input parameters:
#        Filestore location of 'zip' files to be used to create the re
+pository
#        Directory to be used for 'ppm' repository (created if not pre
+sent)
#        Directory to be used as work area (a subsidiary directory wil
+l be created, then deleted at end).

print "\n";
print "Location of '.zip' files is $ARGV[0] \n";
print "Location of 'ppm' repository is $ARGV[1] \n";
print "Location of work directory is $ARGV[2] \n";

my $zippath    = $ARGV[0];
my $ppmrep     = $ARGV[1];
my $workdirtop = $ARGV[2];

my $workdir = "$workdirtop\\ppmwork";
# Clean out directory from previous cycle(s) if present
$return = `rmdir /S /Q $workdir`;


# Open directory, read list of '.zip' files, and close

opendir(ZIPDIR, $zippath) or die "Failed to open $zippath: $!";
#@allzips = grep { /zip$/ && -f } map { "$zippath/$_" } readdir(ZIPDIR
+);
@allzips = grep { /zip$/ } readdir(ZIPDIR);
closedir ZIPDIR;

 $zipcount = @allzips;
 print "\nNumber of files to process is $zipcount !\n";


###################################################################
# Code fragment to do the main work.
# To be reworked into a loop for all files.
###################################################################

foreach $zip_file (@allzips) {

    # Remember that there is no space between the flag and the value!

    # Use 7-zip to extract from the zip file into the work directory
    # -y option allows over-write of README file

    $return = `7z x -o$workdir -y $zippath\\$zip_file`;
    print $return;

    # Open work directory and find name of 'ppd' file
    opendir(WORKDIR, $workdir) or die "Failed to open $workdir: $!";
    my @ppd_file = grep { /\.ppd$/ } readdir(WORKDIR);
    closedir WORKDIR;

    # Assume only one element in the array!    
    my $ppd_name = $ppd_file[0];

    # Strip off the '.zip' part of the input file name

    $_ = $zip_file;
    s/\.zip//;
    my $zip_name = $_;

    # Make new '.ppd' file name which matches the '.zip' file name.
    # We don't care if it is the same as the original name, so why tes
+t?

    my $new_name = "$zip_name\.ppd";

    # Move file from work directory to repository
    
    $return = `move /Y $workdir\\$ppd_name $ppmrep\\$new_name`;
    print $return;
    # All done for this time round!

}
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Please note I have just found this and have not validated it, tested it, nor confirmed that it is the final working version. However there is enough here to demonstrate the overall approach.

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