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Hi guys, |
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First of all, thanks to everyone that sent me emails regarding the |
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project, lot's of cool ideas, some of them regarding the |
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database design are already implemented (special thanks to Mark |
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gibson for the great tips). Now a quick status update, I won't have |
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the time to do everything I wanted, as I already said, the priority |
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is to have portage on postgres, populated with enough information |
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that will allow not only searches but calculating dependencies. |
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The search part was the easiest, and it's 99% complete, |
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just needs some new stuff I want to include, like restrict the search |
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to a category, license, etc. The hard part is the dependencies, which |
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i'm having some problems parsing them, nothing I won't solve but |
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takes time and patience, remember i'm not using any portage code |
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itself, i'm rewriting everything from scratch. |
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Now for the real reason of this email, there's something already for |
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the brave to try, it's a small client that can do emerge -s and |
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emerge -S to the postgres database. It's a very thin client, only |
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needs pyopenssl because it uses ssl sockets to communicate. Oh, and |
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as requested I made a small webpage so you guys can track changes |
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with RSS, the homepage is located at |
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http://mimosa.dei.uc.pt/portagedb and although it has little |
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information yet, i'll add more as time goes by. For now if you guys |
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want to try the client, just go to |
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http://mimosa.dei.uc.pt/portagedb/browser/trunk/ download |
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pdbclient.py, emerge pyopenssl (if you haven't already) and just |
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execute like this: |
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# python pdbclient.py -s pattern |
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# python pdbclient.py -S pattern |
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# python pdbclient.py -sS pattern |
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Of course the first one searches the pattern for name, the second for |
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description and the third for both. The little server is not ready |
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for abuses, like patterns that break the sql query, so please |
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although I know it's easy and fun to break the server, stay away of |
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those proof of concept that i'm already aware of and do regular |
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searches. And please report to here/email/website any problems you |
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find. If you get a connection refused that means someone managed to |
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kill the server, and I haven't done any code to ressurect it yet, so |
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be gentle. Oh, the script will not work on non-gentoo boxes cause i'm |
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using the output package of portage for the colors. Remember it's |
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still a very alpha code. Also the database was updated about 7 hours |
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ago, so you may not find the very latest packages there. |
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Of course the source code is all there, anyone who wants to test it |
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all feel free to do it, although it might be hard cause the script to |
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create the postgres database is not complete yet, and there are some |
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things needing an urgent clean. |
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Regards, |
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Ricardo Loureiro |
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