Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] Hello! && portage UI

[tvali <qtvali@gmail.com>]

Ok, i will finish this chat about making portage cache, then learn
portage code, then write basic sql modules and when this thing is
running, i am more able to be involved in portage GUI as i can
understand background of portage, then ...i hope you have time to wait
for me :)

2006/3/14, Brian <dol-sen@telus.net>:
> On Tue, 2006-14-03 at 13:14 +0200, tvali wrote:
> > Ok, i was, yes, speaking about kde.
> >
> > I will check out this Porthole :) I was actually thinking more about c
> > ++, but nothing against python -- i was quite a fan of python when i
> > first found it.
>
> I believe Kuroo is in C, maybe c++
> >
> > I'm new to gentoo, so could you tell me, where i find some clear
> > manual for doing the following:
> > * Download gentoo source of Porthole
>
> First I would unmask it and emerge it so that you have all dependencies
> installed.  enable the debug use flag or emerge pycrash-0.43 separately.
>
> # echo =app-portage/porthole-0.5.0 /etc/portage/package.unmask
> # echo app-portage/porthole /etc/portage/package.keywords
> # emerge porthole
>
> If you like it and want to make a kde interface for it,
>
> Go to our sourceforge page and do a cvs checkout.
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/porthole/
>
> > * Change that source
>
> cd into the directory, edit as desired
>
> > * Build my version of it in such way that my portage tree is OK after
> > that
> >
> then run it from a terminal:
>
> # ./porthole -l -d
>
>
> Also sign up to the 2 mail lists for porthole so we can discuss any
> problems, etc..  This list is for portage development.
>
> Then any changes can be diffed for commit.
>
> cvs diff -u > somefile
>
> Of course I will have to make changes to the interface loading so that
> your changes won't kill the gtk interface code.
>
>
> > Are --fetchonly and --usepkgonly somehow related to that?
> >
> --fetchonly will just get the tarball downloaded into the distfiles
> directory.
>
> --usepkgonly is for telling emerge to use binary packages only.
>
>
> > 2006/3/14, Brian <dol-sen@telus.net>:
> >         On Tue, 2006-14-03 at 00:39 +0200, tvali wrote:
> >         For KDE there are 2 projects that come to mind Kuroo, and
> >         another one
> >         that was designed to run in Konguerer, but I don't remember
> >         the name.
> >         Kuroo is being actively developed right now, I don't recall
> >         seeing
> >         anything recently on the other one.
> >
> >         If your thinking of something being coded in python so that it
> >         can
> >         interact with and use portage code for information retrieval
> >         then check
> >         out Porthole.  It is a gtk app not KDE, but will run on a KDE
> >         desktop.
> >         It sounds like it already does things similar to what you had
> >         in mind.
> >
> >         If you wanted to port the gui code from pygtk to pyQt, I am
> >         sure that
> >         there would be a number of KDE users that would be pleased.  I
> >         would
> >         definitely consider adding an optional KDE interface to it. :)
> >
> >
> >         --
> >         Brian <dol-sen@telus.net>
> >
> >         --
> >         gentoo-portage-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > tvali
> > (e-mail: "qtvali@gmail.com"; msn: "qtvali@gmail.com";
> > icq: "317-492-912")
> >
> > Ühe eesti internetifirma lehel kohtasin tsitaati:
> > If you don't do it excellently, dont do it at all. Because if it's not
> > excellent, it won't be profitable or fun, and if you're not in
> > business for fun or profit, what the hell are you doing here?
> > Robert Townsend
> --
> Brian <dol-sen@telus.net>
>
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>
>


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tvali
(e-mail: "qtvali@gmail.com"; msn: "qtvali@gmail.com";
icq: "317-492-912")

Ühe eesti internetifirma lehel kohtasin tsitaati:
If you don't do it excellently, dont do it at all. Because if it's not
excellent, it won't be profitable or fun, and if you're not in
business for fun or profit, what the hell are you doing here?
Robert Townsend

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