Re: [gentoo-dev] An Offering: the EMerge Interface

[Karl Trygve Kalleberg <karltk@prosalg.no>]

Hi.

I've already added this to Gentool, but I've not checked it into CVS
yet (shame on me!).

If you have knowledge of Python (we don't use Perl for Portage) and
want to keep working on these kinds of things, tell me, and I'll see
if we can't get Gentool rolling a bit faster from now on.

For those of you who haven't been paying attention to what I intend
to do with Gentool: It's intended as a playground for higher-level
stuff that should go into Portage. 

Since Portage itself is so vital, we don't want to muck around with
it needlessly. That's why I suggest we use Gentool as an entry-point 
for all crazy and non-crazy 'portage addons' that crop up on the list.

This way, the users will be able to try them out before they make
it into Portage proper, and we can throw away/rework suggestions
that weren't so hot after all.


I promise to speed up Gentool development once I get settled at uni (in 
about a week).


Kind regards,

Karl T

On Sun, Aug 19, 2001 at 10:10:53PM -0400, Will Rogers wrote:
> # emi - the EMerge Interface
> # Copyright (C) 2001 William J. Rogers (wjr@wam.umd.edu)
> #
> # An interface to the Gentoo Portage package system in the style of
> apt-get
> 
> Available at http://www.wam.umd.edu/~wjr/emi (also linked off of
> http://www.wam.umd.edu/~wjr).
> 
> This is a perl script that can acts as a user-friendly interface to
> emerge merge, package information, and ebuild unmerge operations.  Its
> features include:
> 	- emi merge <package file>
> checks if there is an ebuild in the tree for this package (if you are
> calling it on a binary .tbz2), lists currently installed versions, lists
> dependencies via emerge --pretend, and tells you if those have ebuilds
> available also, then asks if you want to install and fires off emerge if
> you say yes
> 	- emi query <package name>
> Lists ebuilds for this program in the portage tree, source packages in
> the distfiles folder, binary packages in PKGDIR, and current versions in
> /var/db/pkg
> 	- emi unmerge <package name>
> Lists current versions in /var/db/pkg and allows you to select one to
> unmerge (via ebuild unmerge) or quit
> 
> I wrote this in my spare time over the weekend because I found it
> tiresome to manually look around to discover various information about
> packages.  This functionality might be planned in future emerge
> iterations; it might already exist somewhere I haven't found yet.  If
> so, I don't really care; I had fun writing it :).
> 
> Please check it out if you're interested and let me know what you think.
> 
> Will Rogers
> wjr@wam.umd.edu
> 
> 
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