Re: [gentoo-perl] perl-info - emerge --info for perl

[Michael Cummings]

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Christian Hartmann wrote:
> Hi guys,
>
> often it would be nice to know more about users systems when trying to fix
> bugs and stuff so I thought it would be handy to have a tool similar to
> `emerge --info` that gathers all relevant data so that the user can attach
> it's output to the bugreport if needed.
> What do you think? Wouldn't it be handy to have such a tool available in the
> default distribution of our perl-package?
>
> That's what it says about my notebook e.g.:
>
> $ ./perl-info
>
>  perl-info version 0.10 - brought to you by the Gentoo
> perl-herd-maintainer ;-)
>                           Distributed under the terms of the GPL-2
>
>  * Perl   : dev-lang/perl-5.8.8-r2
>  * libperl: sys-devel/libperl-5.8.8-r1
>
>  * INC:
>    /etc/perl
>    /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.8/i686-linux
>    /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.8
>    /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.6
>    /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.6/i686-linux
>    /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.7
>    /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.7/i686-linux
>    /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl
>    /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8/i686-linux
>    /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8
>    /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl
>    /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.8/i686-linux
>    /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.8
>    /usr/local/lib/site_perl
>    .
>
>  * Installed packages:
>    dev-perl/AppConfig-1.56-r2
>    dev-perl/Archive-Tar-1.28
>    dev-perl/Archive-Zip-1.16
>    dev-perl/Compress-Zlib-1.41
>    dev-perl/Config-IniFiles-2.38
>    dev-perl/Crypt-Blowfish-2.10
>    dev-perl/Crypt-DES-2.05
>    dev-perl/Crypt-SSLeay-0.51
>    dev-perl/Curses-1.13
>    dev-perl/CursesWidgets-1.997
>    dev-perl/DBD-Pg-1.49
>    dev-perl/DBD-mysql-2.9007
>    dev-perl/DBI-1.50
>    dev-perl/DateManip-5.44
>    dev-perl/DelimMatch-1.06
>    dev-perl/Digest-HMAC-1.01-r1
>    dev-perl/Digest-SHA-5.43
>    dev-perl/Digest-SHA1-2.11
>    dev-perl/Email-Valid-0.15-r1
>    dev-perl/Exporter-Cluster-0.31
>    dev-perl/ExtUtils-CBuilder-0.15
>    dev-perl/File-BaseDir-0.02
>    dev-perl/GD-2.30
>    dev-perl/GD-Graph3d-0.63
>    dev-perl/GDGraph-1.43
>    dev-perl/GDTextUtil-0.86
>    dev-perl/HTML-Element-Extended-1.16
>    dev-perl/HTML-Parser-3.48
>    dev-perl/HTML-Tagset-3.10
>    dev-perl/HTML-Template-2.8
>    dev-perl/HTML-Tree-3.19.01
>    dev-perl/IO-Socket-SSL-0.97
>    dev-perl/IO-String-1.08
>    dev-perl/IO-Zlib-1.04
>    dev-perl/IO-stringy-2.110
>    dev-perl/Locale-gettext-1.05
>    dev-perl/Log-Agent-0.307
>    dev-perl/MIME-Lite-3.01
>    dev-perl/MIME-Types-1.17
>    dev-perl/Mail-SPF-Query-1.999.1
>    dev-perl/MailTools-1.67
>    dev-perl/Net-CIDR-Lite-0.18
>    dev-perl/Net-DNS-0.53-r1
>    dev-perl/Net-Daemon-0.38
>    dev-perl/Net-Domain-TLD-1.62
>    dev-perl/Net-IP-1.24
>    dev-perl/Net-SNMP-5.2.0
>    dev-perl/Net-SSLeay-1.25
>    dev-perl/Nmap-Parser-1.05
>    dev-perl/OLE-StorageLite-0.14
>    dev-perl/PDF-API2-0.51
>    dev-perl/PDF-Create-0.06.1b
>    dev-perl/Parse-RecDescent-1.94
>    dev-perl/PlRPC-0.2018
>    dev-perl/Pod-Escapes-1.04
>    dev-perl/Pod-Simple-3.04
>    dev-perl/Proc-ProcessTable-0.39
>    dev-perl/SGMLSpm-1.03-r5
>    dev-perl/Spreadsheet-ParseExcel-0.2603
>    dev-perl/Spreadsheet-WriteExcel-2.17-r1
>    dev-perl/Sub-Uplevel-0.13
>    dev-perl/Sys-Hostname-Long-1.2
>    dev-perl/Template-DBI-2.64
>    dev-perl/Template-GD-2.66
>    dev-perl/Template-Latex-2.17
>    dev-perl/Template-Toolkit-2.15-r1
>    dev-perl/Template-XML-2.16-r1
>    dev-perl/Term-ANSIColor-1.11
>    dev-perl/Term-ReadLine-Perl-1.0203
>    dev-perl/TermReadKey-2.30
>    dev-perl/Test-Exception-0.21
>    dev-perl/Test-LongString-0.09
>    dev-perl/Test-Manifest-1.14
>    dev-perl/Test-Pod-1.24
>    dev-perl/Text-Iconv-1.4
>    dev-perl/Text-Tabs+Wrap-2006.0711
>    dev-perl/Tie-IxHash-1.21-r1
>    dev-perl/URI-1.35
>    dev-perl/XML-DOM-1.44
>    dev-perl/XML-Dumper-0.81
>    dev-perl/XML-Filter-BufferText-1.01
>    dev-perl/XML-Handler-YAWriter-0.23-r1
>    dev-perl/XML-LibXML-1.58-r1
>    dev-perl/XML-LibXML-Common-0.13
>    dev-perl/XML-NamespaceSupport-1.09
>    dev-perl/XML-Parser-2.34
>    dev-perl/XML-RSS-1.05
>    dev-perl/XML-RegExp-0.03-r1
>    dev-perl/XML-SAX-0.14-r1
>    dev-perl/XML-SAX-Base-1.04
>    dev-perl/XML-SAX-Writer-0.44-r1
>    dev-perl/XML-Simple-2.14
>    dev-perl/XML-Twig-3.26
>    dev-perl/XML-Writer-0.600
>    dev-perl/XML-XPath-1.13
>    dev-perl/crypt-cbc-2.17
>    dev-perl/extutils-depends-0.205
>    dev-perl/extutils-parsexs-2.15
>    dev-perl/extutils-pkgconfig-1.07
>    dev-perl/glib-perl-1.105
>    dev-perl/gtk2-perl-1.102
>    dev-perl/libwww-perl-5.803-r1
>    dev-perl/libxml-perl-0.08
>    dev-perl/module-build-0.28
>    dev-perl/perl-tk-804.027
>    dev-perl/sdl-perl-1.20.3-r1
>    dev-perl/text-autoformat-1.12
>    dev-perl/text-reform-1.11
>    dev-perl/yaml-0.39
>    perl-core/CGI-3.15
>    perl-core/PodParser-1.32
>    perl-core/Scalar-List-Utils-1.18
>    perl-core/Storable-2.15
>    perl-core/Test-Harness-2.56
>    perl-core/Test-Simple-0.62
>    perl-core/Text-Balanced-1.95
>    perl-core/digest-base-1.13
>
>  * eclasses:
>    perl-app: 1.9
>    perl-module: 1.102
>    perl-post: 1.16
>
> (Hey it's just a quick hack.. but wanted to hear your thoughts..)
>
USE flags for perl and libperl would be good to - helps track down when
someone installs one with ithreads and one without.

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