Re: [gentoo-dev] qpkg

[Vitaly Kushneriuk <vitaly_kushneriuk@yahoo.com>]

On Sun, 2002-01-13 at 19:39, Miguel Sousa Filipe wrote:
> Hi all!
> 
> Allthough i'm not using gentoo for a while, i'm tracking, the mailing
> lists.. to check out how its going.
> About qpgk, i believe that if it's not allready quite a handy "pocket knife"
> in Gentoo, it will become one, I find it so "cool" and practical, basically,
> ITS A MUST in gentoo.
Thanks :-)

> It would be nice to also check, and "confront" the available version, with
> the installed version of a package that has just been queried. Something
> like:
>  I do not know if it does this.. but it would be nice.. to see the version
> of the installed and the latest version available.

Proper implementation would require checking with package mask.
I'll think if it can be done in bash. 
This kind of tool should be implemented in python.  
I wrote it initialy as a replacer for my frequent 
"grep ... /var/db/pkg/*/*/CONTENTS" etc. stuff. It quite involved since
then, and now it's kind of reached state when it's easier to reimplement
it in Python then add some useful feature to the existing bash
implementation. I'll defently do it when I have time. Expect it to be
ready soon :-). Any feature requests?

BTW, Python is my weapon of choise for most non trivial scripting.
  The reasons I used bash, are:
    1) I didn't want to reimplement grep :-)
       grep/sed stuff is realy fast. "pkgsearch portage" is 10 times
       faster then "pkgsearch portage". ( well, I guess reimplementation
       of pkgsearch to not allways load the entire db would help)
    2) I wanted it quick and I allready had some bash scripts that
       perform a single task.
    1) it was fun