Gentoo Archives: gentoo-dev

From: "Petteri Räty" <betelgeuse@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] automated extended information gathering
Date: Sat, 07 Jul 2007 23:01:46
Message-Id: 46901A9C.9090101@gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] automated extended information gathering by Mike Frysinger
1 Mike Frysinger kirjoitti:
2 > often times when i get a bug report about certain packages, there's
3 > information about that package that i usually ask for ... i wonder if this
4 > can be automated
5 >
6 > perhaps extend the syntax of profiles/info_pkgs:
7 > <atom> [command to pass to system()]
8 > sys-libs/glibc /lib/libc.so.6
9 >
10 > then when people run `emerge --verbose --info`, for every atom matched as
11 > installed, it'd automatically run the listed command and display the output
12 >
13 > useful ? security issue waiting to explode ? crazy wacky monkey ?
14 > -mike
15
16 Or a new bug wizard that gives you a list of packages and and asks extra
17 info based on that.
18
19 Regards,
20 Petteri

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