[gentoo-dev] app-portage/gentoolkit-0.2.0_pre1 almost available for testing

[gentoo-dev] app-portage/gentoolkit-0.2.0_pre1 almost available for testing

[Karl Trygve Kalleberg]

Hi gang.

We've done some internal revamping of the Gentoolkit package. On the
surface, little has changed for now. A new tool called 'equery' is
available, that's going to replace etcat and qpkg, so please give it a
whirl, and come with feature suggestions and bug reports.

The reason we're dumping etcat and qpkg is that neither uses portage for
queries, and we don't want to maintain more than one query tool. Most of
the features from qpkg and etcat have been included in equery, so
heaploads of thanks to the qpkg and etcat authors.

gentoolkit-0.2.0 will be released alongside portage 2.0.50, so please
spend some available time to test it before we unleash it on the
unwashed;)

We usual, bugs go tools-portage@gentoo.org or me personally.


Kind regards,

Karl T

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Re: [gentoo-dev] app-portage/gentoolkit-0.2.0_pre1 almost available for testing

[Paul Varner]

On Wed, 2004-01-07 at 08:19, Karl Trygve Kalleberg wrote:

> We've done some internal revamping of the Gentoolkit package. On the
> surface, little has changed for now. A new tool called 'equery' is
> available, that's going to replace etcat and qpkg, so please give it a
> whirl, and come with feature suggestions and bug reports.
> 
> The reason we're dumping etcat and qpkg is that neither uses portage for
> queries, and we don't want to maintain more than one query tool. Most of
> the features from qpkg and etcat have been included in equery, so
> heaploads of thanks to the qpkg and etcat authors.
> 
> gentoolkit-0.2.0 will be released alongside portage 2.0.50, so please
> spend some available time to test it before we unleash it on the
> unwashed;)
> 
> We usual, bugs go tools-portage@gentoo.org or me personally.

Since I'm real interested in the Gentoolkit package, I'm willing to test
and play with this.  The question I have before I do so is what if
anything can I expect to break by unmasking and installing
portage-2.50_pre10?

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Re: [gentoo-dev] app-portage/gentoolkit-0.2.0_pre1 almost available for testing

[Ian Leitch]

On Wed, 2004-01-07 at 14:19, Karl Trygve Kalleberg wrote:
> Hi gang.
> 
> We've done some internal revamping of the Gentoolkit package. On the
> surface, little has changed for now. A new tool called 'equery' is
> available, that's going to replace etcat and qpkg, so please give it a
> whirl, and come with feature suggestions and bug reports.
> 
> The reason we're dumping etcat and qpkg is that neither uses portage for
> queries, and we don't want to maintain more than one query tool. Most of
> the features from qpkg and etcat have been included in equery, so
> heaploads of thanks to the qpkg and etcat authors.
> 
> gentoolkit-0.2.0 will be released alongside portage 2.0.50, so please
> spend some available time to test it before we unleash it on the
> unwashed;)
> 
> We usual, bugs go tools-portage@gentoo.org or me personally.

Hi Karl,

When is the user/dev tools split going to happen? I currently have one
package 'epkgmove'[1] ready for release plus another two called esign
and eorphan to follow shortly. 

[1] http://dev.gentoo.org/~port001/DevTools/epkgmove/

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Re: [gentoo-dev] app-portage/gentoolkit-0.2.0_pre1 almost available for testing

[Karl Trygve Kalleberg]

On Wed, Jan 07, 2004 at 07:05:00PM +0000, Ian Leitch wrote:
>
> Hi Karl,
> 
> When is the user/dev tools split going to happen? I currently have one
> package 'epkgmove'[1] ready for release plus another two called esign
> and eorphan to follow shortly. 
> 
> [1] http://dev.gentoo.org/~port001/DevTools/epkgmove/

I'm happy to inform you that it's already happened. I just haven't added
the ebuild for it yet.

If you make one bug issues out of each of your scripts and assign them
to me, I'll take add them to app-portage/gentoolkit-dev-0.2.0_pre1 as I
release it either later tonight or tomorrow.

Just some general info: Getting tools into gentoolkit-dev should be
fairly straightforward if you're willing to do the required maintenance.
As for gentoolkit, which is targeted at our users, we'll be a bit more
strict, and will only add new tools that we (the tools-portage herd) are
willing to maintain.

Experience tells us that most of the tools that have gone into
gentoolkit over the years were not maintained by the original
contributor, despite vehement insistence and oaths of proper
maintainenance from the original contributor(s) at inclusion time.

Kind regards,

Karl T

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Re: [gentoo-dev] app-portage/gentoolkit-0.2.0_pre1 almost available for testing

[Karl Trygve Kalleberg]

On Wed, Jan 07, 2004 at 12:31:17PM -0600, Paul Varner wrote:
> On Wed, 2004-01-07 at 08:19, Karl Trygve Kalleberg wrote:
>
>
> Since I'm real interested in the Gentoolkit package, I'm willing to test
> and play with this.  The question I have before I do so is what if
> anything can I expect to break by unmasking and installing
> portage-2.50_pre10?

Nothing, I should think. At least we haven't experienced any major
regressions with that one.

etcat in gentoolkit-0.1.37 won't work with the portage 2.0.50 series,
but apart from that, I think most things should work.

There may be some stray debugging output left in portage, but that's
harmless.

Kind regards,

Karl T

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