[gentoo-soc] R_Overlay: Automated overlay maintenance - progress report #5

[gentoo-soc] R_Overlay: Automated overlay maintenance - progress report #5

[André Erdmann]

Hi everyone,

== Brief summary of this project ==

This project is a continuation of last year's project, "Automatically
generated overlay of R packages". Its aims are extending overlay
creation and, more importantly, automated overlay maintenance.

For reference, the roverlay git repo can be found at [0], which also
provides some documentation [1].


== Last week's progress ==

* completed (code for) selfdep validation. Unresolvable, but optional
selfdeps are now included in the MISSINGDEPS variable which is used to
inform users about such dependencies during installation
(pkg_postinst()).
* produced ebuilds have a LICENSE variable now (if enough information
available to create it)
* added a faster Manifest creation that shares checksums with other
roverlay modules (namely distmap)
* some changes/additions to ease installation of roverlay on the server:
-> config file generation via "roverlay-mkconfig"
-> creation of essential dirs with proper permission via "roverlay setupdirs"
These commands don't have to be run manually. Instead, the ebuild's
pkg_config() (roverlay-9999.ebuild) asks a few questions and does
everything necessary. So, "emerge <roverlay>" followed by "emerge
--config <roverlay>" and the server is ready to run.

Overall status: on schedule


== Plans for this week ==

* get documentation up-to-date


[0] http://git.overlays.gentoo.org/gitweb/?p=proj/R_overlay.git;a=summary
[1] http://git.overlays.gentoo.org/gitweb/?p=proj/R_overlay.git;a=blob_plain;f=doc/html/usage.html;hb=HEAD

Regards,
André E.