From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 21565 invoked by uid 1002); 15 May 2003 21:54:02 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gentoo-dev-help@gentoo.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Received: (qmail 29709 invoked from network); 15 May 2003 21:54:02 -0000 Message-ID: <2620.146.176.60.52.1053036672.squirrel@mail.codewordt.co.uk> Date: Thu, 15 May 2003 23:11:12 +0100 (BST) From: "Dhruba Bandopadhyay" To: X-Priority: 3 Importance: Normal X-Mailer: SquirrelMail (version 1.2.11) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Subject: [gentoo-dev] System health and portage diagnostics X-Archives-Salt: 18b7709c-8aa6-41c7-bd75-7ca1f92ad35b X-Archives-Hash: 7294459eb75aff72a8599f160c81e541 Hello Currently, portage has no diagnostic capability as such that could scour the essential parts of the system and act on anomalies. Staying on that thought, frequently, when users have problems with portage they are resolved by doing the most trivial tasks a fraction of which are given below. ldconfig env-update source /etc/profile revdep-rebuild (from gentoolkit) I wish to propose that all tools that are scattered around the various packages intended for diagnosing and maintaining system health be integrated into one and included in portage. These diagnostics can be assigned to a command within portage which would not only execute them but check /etc/make.conf file as well as other essential files for common syntax errors such as line breaks in CFLAGS and so on. This proposal is in an attempt to make portage more centralised and self reliant rather than being reliant upon hacks from gentoolkit which remain out dated as portage grows. To me it has always seemed that diagnostic capability rather than read capability is essential to any system administration tool as is already present for other mainstream operating systems and this can go a big way in solving problems before they are filed as bug reports. What are your thoughts on the applicability and feasibility of this matter? I look forward to hearing from all. With regards Dhruba Bandopadhyay -- What if the prophecy is true? What if tommorrow the war could end? Isn't that worth fighting for? Isn't that worth dying for? -- Morpheus in 'The Matrix Reloaded' - 23 May 2003 -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list