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 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1GXHJG-00080R-Rj for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 10 Oct 2006 13:06:15 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.6) with SMTP id k9AD5JN5016397; Tue, 10 Oct 2006 13:05:19 GMT Received: from egr.msu.edu (jeeves.egr.msu.edu [35.9.37.127]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k9AD3GNg020443 for ; Tue, 10 Oct 2006 13:03:16 GMT Received: from [35.11.158.112] (warnera6-2.user.msu.edu [35.11.158.112]) (authenticated bits=0) by egr.msu.edu (8.13.7/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k9AD3Edd012800 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Tue, 10 Oct 2006 09:03:15 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <452B9A12.6@gentoo.org> Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2006 09:03:14 -0400 From: Alec Warner User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.7 (Macintosh/20060909) 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 To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: RFC: Last rites for $package ... References: <20060928202827.GA20892@nibiru.local> <451C381D.5060408@gentoo.org> <200609301210.04828.bangert@gentoo.org> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 6d451ce7-d024-461c-af36-b8188db85451 X-Archives-Hash: 1f7e90e8c99b49914231a982beed0a29 Steve Long wrote: >>> Or you haven't talked to me or Beandog at all; since he has been >>> working on this a while (now with upgraded tools!). >> what i'd like to see is a system, to which one would give a package name, >> which then handles the removal (almost) automatically. >> >> that way devs would have an easier time actually removing some cruft and >> you guys would be freed from typing the same stuff over and over. >> this system could be responsible for sending the out last rites mails, >> masking the packages in package.mask etc... enrico would get his database >> for free, both listing those that are pending removal as well as a >> history of removals including the reason plus a pointer to the >> corresponding bug... >> > This sounds like an excellent idea. Do the `upgraded tools' already automate > this process? The 'upgraded tools' was in regards to the GPNL project; since Beandog was using portageq to import metadata into the database; this turned out to be a bad idea (slow as all hell). The upgraded portion was Marien writing some funky pkgcore voodoo to do the metadata import in about three minutes. Phreak and I have some scripts that automate portions of the removal process (including adding stuff into the treecleaner overlay!) but I know I'm not using em (not what I would call production ready yet). I don't like automated E-mails all that much, tbh. Right now my script just generates the text for the e-mail and I read it over and add comments and then paste it into my client ;) Some people stated that they liked more comments than just "masked for bug #XXXXXX' so I try to provide those; a tool just won't cover it in that aera. Also there is no history of removals other than the ebuilds go into the treecleaner project overlay; which I guess provides a revision history for removals by default (cool!). -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list