From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: <320095285153-0001@t-online.de> X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 4.0.0 (2022-12-14) on finch.gentoo.org X-Spam-Level: * X-Spam-Status: No, score=1.4 required=5.0 tests=DATE_IN_PAST_12_24, DMARC_MISSING,FREEMAIL_ENVFROM_END_DIGIT,FREEMAIL_FROM, FROM_LOCAL_DIGITS,FROM_LOCAL_HEX,FROM_STARTS_WITH_NUMS,INVALID_DATE, MAILING_LIST_MULTI,RCVD_IN_MSPIKE_H2 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=4.0.0 Received: from mailout01.sul.t-online.com (mailout01.sul.t-online.com [194.25.134.80]) by cvs.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C9E4248BB7 for ; Sat, 20 Jan 2001 13:18:18 -0700 (MST) Received: from fwd02.sul.t-online.com by mailout01.sul.t-online.com with smtp id 14K4Te-0004dn-00; Sat, 20 Jan 2001 21:19:10 +0100 Received: from helios.bagwan (320095285153-0001@[217.80.39.188]) by fwd02.sul.t-online.com with smtp id 14K4TP-0N0KgKC; Sat, 20 Jan 2001 21:18:55 +0100 Received: (qmail 5894 invoked by uid 0); 20 Jan 2001 22:59:55 -0000 Received: from sadchitananda2.bagwan (HELO gottinger.de) (achim@192.168.2.1) by helios.bagwan with SMTP; 20 Jan 2001 22:59:55 -0000 Message-ID: <3A69EC25.3D9072F2@gottinger.de> From: 320095285153-0001@t-online.de (Achim Gottinger) X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; I; Linux 2.2.14 i686) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] /proc and portage References: <20010119094715.B17728@tsuny.ctn.cogs.susx.ac.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Sender: 320095285153-0001@t-dialin.net Sender: gentoo-dev-admin@gentoo.org Errors-To: gentoo-dev-admin@gentoo.org X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0 Precedence: bulk Reply-To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org X-Reply-To: achim@gentoo.org List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Gentoo Linux development list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Date: Sat Jan 20 13:19:01 2001 X-Original-Date: Sat, 20 Jan 2001 20:51:01 +0100 X-Archives-Salt: 6a4c09d1-b3c0-4ffc-ab27-c5602111c70b X-Archives-Hash: 25e40cd153f5ef5ead72e6592b4c184c Thomas Flavel wrote: > Hi, > > I had an idea I dimsmissed which I thought I should post anyway, on the off chance that it > might actually get used ;) > > I was thinking about how /proc is sometimes used as a bi-directional interface, for example I > can "echo 1>/proc/whatever" to turn on ping flood protection or something similar. I was > wondering how practical it would be to have a similar thing for portage? > > If I could say "echo gimp>/proc/portage/install" or "cat /proc/portage/packages" etc then > this would mean that it would be very easy to write front ends for portage, plus with this > minimal interface it would be very nice to use in scripts... I know it would be a massive > kernel module, and probably too much effort to actually produce/maintain but I thought you > should hear the idea... have a think about it please Hmm, such a module whould make sense if it contains all the pachage management functions and the whole /var/db/pkg stuff in a database typothing. I thought about using SOAP over RPC-XML for an network based package management system. If this thing could be implemented as a module it would be great I think. Bye Achim > > > - Tom > _______________________________________________ > gentoo-dev mailing list > gentoo-dev@gentoo.org > http://www.gentoo.org/mailman/listinfo/gentoo-dev