[gentoo-user] ebuild description

[gentoo-user] ebuild description

[Michael P. Soulier]

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Often when I see something like dev-libs/libassuan, I say, "what the heck is
that"?

So I look at the ebuild file...

msoulier@anton:~$ grep DESCRIPTION
/usr/portage/dev-libs/libassuan/libassuan-1.0
.5.ebuild 
DESCRIPTION="Standalone IPC library used by gpg, gpgme and newpg"

Great, that helps. Still, I wouldn't think that grep would be the best say, so
I looked in the emerge manpage and found --info, but that tells me everything
*except* the DESCRIPTION string. :)

equery doesn't seem to dump this either..

So, is grep the best approach to answer, "what the heck is that?" :)

Mike
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Re: [gentoo-user] ebuild description

[Sebastian Günther]

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* Michael P. Soulier (msoulier@digitaltorque.ca) [25.04.09 20:59]:

> So, is grep the best approach to answer, "what the heck is that?" :)
> 
No, eix is:

emerge eix
man eix

> Mike

HTH
Sebastian

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Re: [gentoo-user] ebuild description

[Alan McKinnon]

On Saturday 25 April 2009 20:59:09 Michael P. Soulier wrote:
> Often when I see something like dev-libs/libassuan, I say, "what the heck
> is that"?
>
> So I look at the ebuild file...
>
> msoulier@anton:~$ grep DESCRIPTION
> /usr/portage/dev-libs/libassuan/libassuan-1.0
> .5.ebuild
> DESCRIPTION="Standalone IPC library used by gpg, gpgme and newpg"
>
> Great, that helps. Still, I wouldn't think that grep would be the best say,
> so I looked in the emerge manpage and found --info, but that tells me
> everything *except* the DESCRIPTION string. :)
>
> equery doesn't seem to dump this either..
>
> So, is grep the best approach to answer, "what the heck is that?" :)

emerge eix

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[gentoo-user] Re: ebuild description

[Remy Blank]

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Michael P. Soulier wrote:
> msoulier@anton:~$ grep DESCRIPTION
> /usr/portage/dev-libs/libassuan/libassuan-1.0
> .5.ebuild 
> DESCRIPTION="Standalone IPC library used by gpg, gpgme and newpg"
> 
> Great, that helps. Still, I wouldn't think that grep would be the best say, so
> I looked in the emerge manpage and found --info, but that tells me everything
> *except* the DESCRIPTION string. :)

Try:

  emerge -s libassuan

-- Remy


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Re: [gentoo-user] ebuild description

[Michael P. Soulier]

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On 25/04/09 Sebastian Günther said:

> emerge eix
> man eix

Cool. I installed it and ran update-eix.

When I run

eix dev-lang/python

I see that it's highlighting version ~2.5.4-r2, which is what I have
installed. If the 2.5.4-r2 version is "masked by keyword", why's it installed
on my system? :)

I haven't explicitely unmasked that version anywhere that I'm aware of.

Thanks,
Mike
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Re: [gentoo-user] ebuild description

[Philip Webb]

090426 Michael P. Soulier wrote:
> I installed eix and ran update-eix.  When I run 'eix dev-lang/python'
> it's highlighting version ~2.5.4-r2, which is what I have installed.
> If the 2.5.4-r2 version is "masked by keyword",
> why's it installed on my system?

What I get is :

  root:502 root> eix ^python$
    [I] dev-lang/python
    Available versions:
      (2.4)   2.4.4-r5 2.4.4-r6 2.4.4-r14 ~2.4.4-r15
      (2.5)   2.5.2-r7 ~2.5.2-r8 2.5.4-r2
      (2.6)   ~2.6-r5 ~2.6.1-r1 ~2.6.2
      {berkdb bootstrap build cxx doc elibc_uclibc examples gdbm ipv6 ncurses nocxx nothreads readline sqlite ssl threads tk ucs2 wininst xml}
    Installed versions:  2.5.4-r2(2.5)([2009-04-25 01:59:27])(gdbm ncurses readline sqlite ssl threads tk xml -berkdb -build -doc -elibc_uclibc -examples -ipv6 -ucs2 -wininst)
    Homepage:    http://www.python.org/
    Description: Python is an interpreted, interactive, object-oriented programming language.

Apparently, our version of Python was unmasked very recently.

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Re: [gentoo-user] ebuild description

[Neil Bothwick]

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On Sun, 26 Apr 2009 20:59:42 -0400, Michael P. Soulier wrote:

> eix dev-lang/python
> 
> I see that it's highlighting version ~2.5.4-r2, which is what I have
> installed. If the 2.5.4-r2 version is "masked by keyword", why's it
> installed on my system? :)

It's not keyword-masked according to eix here

% eix -e python
[I] dev-lang/python
     Available versions:
        (2.4)   2.4.4-r5 2.4.4-r6 2.4.4-r14 ~2.4.4-r15
        (2.5)   2.5.2-r7 ~2.5.2-r8 2.5.4-r2
        (2.6)   ~2.6-r5 ~2.6.1-r1 ~2.6.2
        {berkdb bootstrap build cxx doc elibc_uclibc examples gdbm ipv6 ncurses nocxx nothreads readline sqlite ssl threads tk ucs2 wininst xml} 
     Installed versions:  2.5.4-r2(2.5)(08:37:17 04/20/09)(berkdb gdbm ncurses readline ssl threads xml -build -doc -elibc_uclibc -examples -ipv6 -sqlite -tk -ucs2 -wininst) Homepage:            http://www.python.org/
     Description:         Python is an interpreted, interactive, object-oriented programming language.


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