[gentoo-user] How do I find new packages?

[gentoo-user] How do I find new packages?

[felix]

There used to be a package which ran after a sync to report new and
updated packages.  At some point a year ago or so, it disappeared.  I
have long since forgotten its name.

Is there some way to do this now?  I could probably write some script
to simply search /usr/portage for ebuilds which were modified or
created since the last time it ran, but I can see it having a few
false positives from other changes.

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Re: [gentoo-user] How do I find new packages?

[Jacob Todd]

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On Tue, Aug 04, 2009 at 01:46:43AM -0700, felix@crowfix.com wrote:
> There used to be a package which ran after a sync to report new and
> updated packages.  At some point a year ago or so, it disappeared.  I
> have long since forgotten its name.
> 
> Is there some way to do this now?  I could probably write some script
> to simply search /usr/portage for ebuilds which were modified or
> created since the last time it ran, but I can see it having a few
> false positives from other changes.
> 
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> 

It sounds like you're thinking of the eix-diff application that comes with eix.
When using eix-sync, it's run after the sync is complete to update the eix
database; but it can be run by itself. To update a eix database, run 'eix-diff
/var/cache/eix.previous /var/cache/eix' after you run eix-update. It will show
all new ebuilds, what was removed, et cetera.

Hope that helps.
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Re: [gentoo-user] How do I find new packages?

[Saphirus Sage]

felix@crowfix.com wrote:
> There used to be a package which ran after a sync to report new and
> updated packages.  At some point a year ago or so, it disappeared.  I
> have long since forgotten its name.
>
> Is there some way to do this now?  I could probably write some script
> to simply search /usr/portage for ebuilds which were modified or
> created since the last time it ran, but I can see it having a few
> false positives from other changes.
>
>   
If you're just looking for updated packages "emerge -au world" would
certainly do that.

Re: [gentoo-user] How do I find new packages?

[felix]

On Tue, Aug 04, 2009 at 08:49:26AM -0400, Saphirus Sage wrote:

> If you're just looking for updated packages "emerge -au world" would
> certainly do that.

Nah, that only shows updated packages I have already installed.  I am
curious about packages which I haven't installed.

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Re: [gentoo-user] How do I find new packages?

[felix]

On Tue, Aug 04, 2009 at 08:52:37AM +0000, Jacob Todd wrote:

> It sounds like you're thinking of the eix-diff application that comes with eix.
> When using eix-sync, it's run after the sync is complete to update the eix
> database; but it can be run by itself. To update a eix database, run 'eix-diff
> /var/cache/eix.previous /var/cache/eix' after you run eix-update. It will show
> all new ebuilds, what was removed, et cetera.

Might do.  I ran both, but eix-diff says

    void load_db(const char*, DBHeader*, PackageTree*, PortageSettings*): Can't open the database file '/var/cache/eix.previous' for reading (mode = 'rb')

which I take as a particularly lazy way of telling me the cache hasn't
been created or is elsewhere.  I'll investigate in a bit -- a quick
--help from both programs doesn't show anything obvious.  Probably
something easy.

Thanks.

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Re: [gentoo-user] How do I find new packages?

[Gregory SACRE]

http://packages.gentoo.org/gentoo.rss

HTH,

Greg

On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 4:27 PM, <felix@crowfix.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 04, 2009 at 08:49:26AM -0400, Saphirus Sage wrote:
>
>> If you're just looking for updated packages "emerge -au world" would
>> certainly do that.
>
> Nah, that only shows updated packages I have already installed.  I am
> curious about packages which I haven't installed.
>
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> I've found a solution to Fermat's Last Theorem but I see I've run out of room o
>
>



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Re: [gentoo-user] How do I find new packages?

[Jesús Guerrero]

On Tue, August 4, 2009 16:35, felix@crowfix.com wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 04, 2009 at 08:52:37AM +0000, Jacob Todd wrote:
>
>
>> It sounds like you're thinking of the eix-diff application that comes
>> with eix. When using eix-sync, it's run after the sync is complete to
>> update the eix database; but it can be run by itself. To update a eix
>> database, run 'eix-diff /var/cache/eix.previous /var/cache/eix' after
>> you run eix-update. It will show all new ebuilds, what was removed, et
>> cetera.
>
> Might do.  I ran both, but eix-diff says
>
>
> void load_db(const char*, DBHeader*, PackageTree*, PortageSettings*):
> Can't open the database file '/var/cache/eix.previous' for reading (mode
> = 'rb')
>
>
> which I take as a particularly lazy way of telling me the cache hasn't
> been created or is elsewhere.  I'll investigate in a bit -- a quick --help
> from both programs doesn't show anything obvious.  Probably something
> easy.

update-eix

You might want to create a cron job, I have no idea if the package
installs one by default. However, if you run eix-sync instead of
emerge --sync, it should update the eix database as well, so running
eix-update would be redundant. It will also list the diff when the sync
is done if you run it manually.


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Re: [gentoo-user] How do I find new packages?

[Mark Knecht]

On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 7:35 AM, <felix@crowfix.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 04, 2009 at 08:52:37AM +0000, Jacob Todd wrote:
>
>> It sounds like you're thinking of the eix-diff application that comes with eix.
>> When using eix-sync, it's run after the sync is complete to update the eix
>> database; but it can be run by itself. To update a eix database, run 'eix-diff
>> /var/cache/eix.previous /var/cache/eix' after you run eix-update. It will show
>> all new ebuilds, what was removed, et cetera.
>
> Might do.  I ran both, but eix-diff says
>
>    void load_db(const char*, DBHeader*, PackageTree*, PortageSettings*): Can't open the database file '/var/cache/eix.previous' for reading (mode = 'rb')
>
> which I take as a particularly lazy way of telling me the cache hasn't
> been created or is elsewhere.  I'll investigate in a bit -- a quick
> --help from both programs doesn't show anything obvious.  Probably
> something easy.
>
> Thanks.
>

Run (I think) update-eix by hand, then eix-sync again.

[gentoo-user] Re: How do I find new packages?

[James]

 <felix <at> crowfix.com> writes:


> There used to be a package which ran after a sync to report new and
> updated packages.  

Well I'm not sure about that mechanism. What I do, when I want new software
that is already in a ebuild is this:


look into the dir that contains all software in a given
category /usr/portage/<category>


Then use eix to give me a one line description so I can see if
it's plausible what I'm after. Then just read up on the software
and decide to install or not. Searching dirs by category
usually gets me what I want....


hth,

James

Re: [gentoo-user] How do I find new packages?

[Philip Webb]

090804 felix@crowfix.com wrote:
> There used to be a package which ran after a sync
> to report new and updated packages.
> At some point a year ago or so, it disappeared.
> I have long since forgotten its name.

I always update Portage via 'eix-sync', which does what you want.

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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How do I find new packages?

[felix]

On Tue, Aug 04, 2009 at 07:46:51PM +0000, James wrote:

> Well I'm not sure about that mechanism. What I do, when I want new software
> that is already in a ebuild is this:

I do that when I have specific categories or even programs in mind.
What I am more after here is just curiousity of what new packages have
popped into existence.

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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How do I find new packages?

[Paul Hartman]

On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 2:59 PM, <felix@crowfix.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 04, 2009 at 07:46:51PM +0000, James wrote:
>
>> Well I'm not sure about that mechanism. What I do, when I want new software
>> that is already in a ebuild is this:
>
> I do that when I have specific categories or even programs in mind.
> What I am more after here is just curiousity of what new packages have
> popped into existence.

You can also view http://packages.gentoo.org to see the latest.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How do I find new packages?

[Dale]

Paul Hartman wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 2:59 PM, <felix@crowfix.com> wrote:
>   
>> On Tue, Aug 04, 2009 at 07:46:51PM +0000, James wrote:
>>
>>     
>>> Well I'm not sure about that mechanism. What I do, when I want new software
>>> that is already in a ebuild is this:
>>>       
>> I do that when I have specific categories or even programs in mind.
>> What I am more after here is just curiousity of what new packages have
>> popped into existence.
>>     
>
> You can also view http://packages.gentoo.org to see the latest.
>
>
>   

On -dev or -dev-announce they have a list every week or so of what was
removed and what was added.  Just subscribe to the list and wait for the
email.

Dale

:-)  :-)

Re: [gentoo-user] How do I find new packages?

[Urs Schuetz]

On 04/08/09, felix@crowfix.com wrote:
> There used to be a package which ran after a sync to report new and
> updated packages.  At some point a year ago or so, it disappeared.  I
> have long since forgotten its name.
> 
> Is there some way to do this now?  I could probably write some script
> to simply search /usr/portage for ebuilds which were modified or
> created since the last time it ran, but I can see it having a few
> false positives from other changes.
> 

Run eix-sync to sync the package cache.

after that you could run 

diff-eix /var/cache/eix.previous /var/cache/eix

Urs

[gentoo-user] Re: How do I find new packages?

[James]

 <felix <at> crowfix.com> writes:


> There used to be a package 

This may ease your pain:

http://packages.gentoo.org/

hth,

James