From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1I7NJy-0007uN-Gs for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 08 Jul 2007 03:20:26 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with SMTP id l683JCLZ016398; Sun, 8 Jul 2007 03:19:12 GMT Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l683HHOI014142 for ; Sun, 8 Jul 2007 03:17:17 GMT Received: from ip6-localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D698764CDF for ; Sun, 8 Jul 2007 03:17:16 +0000 (UTC) From: Mike Frysinger Organization: wh0rd.org To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] automated extended information gathering Date: Sat, 7 Jul 2007 23:19:39 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.7 References: <200707071743.44605.vapier@gentoo.org> <469020C4.8060003@lacqui.com> <8cd1ed20707071752w57533b72j8aa74fdeb0e51438@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <8cd1ed20707071752w57533b72j8aa74fdeb0e51438@mail.gmail.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart17428286.KhVx29RaWs"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200707072319.40004.vapier@gentoo.org> X-Archives-Salt: fd8c128e-c1ca-41f1-a848-8685616063d8 X-Archives-Hash: 67acb5c6b6b36d05416280d480d1d597 --nextPart17428286.KhVx29RaWs Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Saturday 07 July 2007, Kent Fredric wrote: > Implementation details wise, I would like to see packages have > possibly 2 functions, > 1: Info, and 2: Check. > Reason Being that you wont be able to fetch installation status info > on a package thats not installed, and if a package is failing to > install, you're more likely wanting to check the status of the things > it depends on, not the package itself. i dont really understand what you're going for here ... the point was to ge= t=20 extended information on things that are installed ... i dont know what you'= d=20 want/expect for trying to query packages that arent installed > Check would contain manual tests for a given package, thats either > installed or not installed ,as well as names of packages to run info > on. > > Info would be more usefull in diagnosing mis-installed packages or > packages that failed to run properly despite being compiled and > installed without a hitch ( it happens ) sounds like you're duplicating the point of src_test() but without any real= =20 way of quantifying it or making it useful to coordinate things ... please=20 expound on what you're going for because i'm just not seeing it ... =2Dmike --nextPart17428286.KhVx29RaWs Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4 (GNU/Linux) iQIVAwUARpBXy0FjO5/oN/WBAQKpcRAAld4KwsIx4u2CWmE4qjFMOTQVvdGDVfIX F1VvWflZGgEvYe2HsejYwMzIEAj6aMekHC7DtJ/9z4uUPfrqBPTCxRbU2zkUy8Cr QYqgDPxzIB6a8vWUnBAAzR1i4WlmdLdJ9A7Bfn41K0b2feaQW3gzkPq1JDJQiq94 Mu+kTntv00MOjkbAPLKhAMTGaEcjrUMSzGR5nPfOYlbnCJwicUlCF6mBp1Icd5VW NrOnzH1LYO4pqnlOOcKXZTjT7K4qaabyWwcYc4mqFDv73tJPIUBs0xBhZ5i+MgWH sOyLMsfyVkA2H8D6Z0Q8SvFBTH3T7v56EwB1u3HxLvOx6rHd4EwH10BoIAX5a18m dLHB0DkLc89EZw58vKu76ik/RnMq94VyR3dx24qktEpBl94TuXE61Y/GjUmXyNCI G7ir/fIN2MMgaywD377DWxN455lw5ym80EFSvHjgDkNjCV8iz7esjrrSAHu5dh1O kEAYp0VRHceYko5hBKMtWwz9zfrEU/XIwtIkJdqDgk/bM3z9jVNCcoj+/x8bwbJ8 UL1r2fLvPSXQvZgy59t6dmb14jNmoh+LB4BaeADif3E+P37JZw13KIxe+Jb0DCSk raxux3stPDbUDjP3UpYKqGI9WadcZbLSxXLwSzByAQt4SsjFFkQlHzXX6ZoxDjpR FXN2Ro8QS0U= =/hFm -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart17428286.KhVx29RaWs-- -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list