Re: [gentoo-dev] [ANNOUNCE] eclectic-0.9.1

[Kito <kito@gentoo.org>]

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Very cool. Good work gentlemen.

On May 7, 2005, at 4:37 PM, Ciaran McCreesh wrote:

> On Sat, 07 May 2005 22:37:22 +0200 Danny van Dyk <kugelfang@gentoo.org>
> wrote:
> | During the last few months, ciaranm, ka0ttic, slarti and me have been
> | working on "eclectic" [1], a modular administration and configuration
> | framework for Gentoo. Eclectic is completely written in bash and
> | unifies different tasks in one tool with a consistent user  
> interfaces.
>
> Might as well post a sample module... This one's the kernel symlink
> manager thingie, which I wrote mainly as a test / demo thing but it can
> be vaguely useful too:
>
> http://svn.berlios.de/viewcvs/*checkout*/eclectic/trunk/modules/ 
> kernel.eclectic
>
> Note the ebuild-like format that should be nice and easy for everyone  
> to
> get their heads around.
>
> So what's this like from a user perspective?
>
> ciaranm@snowdrop ~ 0 2.30 $ eclectic kernel
> Usage: eclectic kernel <action> <options>
>
> Standard actions:
>   help                      Display help text
>   usage                     Display usage information
>   version                   Display version information
>
> Extra actions:
>   list                      List available kernel symlink targets
>   set                       Set a new kernel symlink target
>   show                      Show the current kernel symlink
>
> ciaranm@snowdrop ~ 0 2.30 $ eclectic kernel show
> Current kernel symlink:
>   linux-2.6.12-rc1
> ciaranm@snowdrop ~ 0 2.10 $ eclectic kernel list
> Available kernel symlink targets:
>   [1]   linux-2.6.10
>   [2]   linux-2.6.11
>   [3]   linux-2.6.11-rc5
>   [4]   linux-2.6.12-rc1
> ciaranm@snowdrop ~ 0 2.01 $ sudo eclectic kernel set 1
> ciaranm@snowdrop ~ 0 2.01 $ eclectic kernel show
> Current kernel symlink:
>   linux-2.6.10
>
> It's all in colour, of course.
>
> But wait, it gets sneakier. Say we install a kernel-config symlink to
> eclectic. Then this will also work:
>
> ciaranm@snowdrop ~ 0 1.50 $ kernel-config list
> Available kernel symlink targets:
>   [1]   linux-2.6.10
>   [2]   linux-2.6.11
>   [3]   linux-2.6.11-rc5
>   [4]   linux-2.6.12-rc1
>
> I added this sneaky little hack in that checks the binary name, and if
> it's foo-config or foo-update, it treats it as eclectic foo [...]. So
> you don't even get to whine about the stupid name :)
>
> By the way, this could also implement GLEP 24 (consistent tool naming).
> See, if you run eclectic with no arguments:
>
> ciaranm@snowdrop ~ 0 1.36 $ eclectic
> Usage: eclectic <module name> <options>
>
> Built-in modules:
>   help                      Display a help message
>   list-modules              Find and display available modules
>   usage                     Display a usage message
>   version                   Display version information
>
> Extra modules:
>   bashcomp                  Manage contributed bash-completion scripts
>   blas                      Manage installed BLAS implementations.
>   kernel                    Manage the /usr/src/linux symlink
>   lapack                    Manage installed LAPACK implementations.
>   mailer                    Manage the mailwrapper profiles in  
> /etc/mail
>   profile                   Manage the /etc/make.profile symlink
>
> Automagically generated list of all the modules available.
>
> *shrug* it's probably full of bugs still.
>
> | There is a both a developer guide and a user guide as RST shipped  
> with
> | the source.
>
> Rendered versions here for the lazy:
>
> http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm/tmp/eclectic/
>
> |  * What do we need to accomplish to get the status of an "Official
> |    Gentoo Project" ? Is a manager voting necessary ?
>
> I'm staying out of this one...
>
> Oh, we have an IRC channel if you have development questions. You can
> figure out the name easily enough :)
>
> -- 
> Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (Vim, Shell tools, Fluxbox, Cron)
> Mail            : ciaranm at gentoo.org
> Web             : http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm
>
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