[gentoo-dev] Re: that script (was [gentoo-dev] Arches marking ebuilds stable before maintainer)

[Karl Trygve Kalleberg]

Make out a bug and assign to me personally, and it'll be done. 

Kind regards,

Karl T


On Tue, Jun 22, 2004 at 03:03:33AM -0400, Travis Tilley wrote:
> On Tuesday 22 June 2004 04:13 am, Guy Martin wrote:
> > That's how I see it for most packages. The script I coded
> > (http://dev.gentoo.org/~gmsoft/tools/imlate) checks stable version of
> > a packages on a given arch against the stable version on another arch
> > (x86 per default).
>
> dude that is -awesome-. i would love to see something like this in
> gentoolkit-dev. :)
>
> i'd also like to see a better version of my revision checking script, which
> will compare a currently installed ebuild with the version in portage and
> tell you if they differ. i wrote it because i got annoyed while trying to fix
> a package... apparently the bug was in a package it depended on. one that was
> already fixed without revision bumping because the bug only effected amd64.
> >_< but i have a -lot- more work to do on revcheck before it's generally
> usable (and ignores changes we dont care about).
> my initial version: http://dev.gentoo.org/~lv/revcheck.sh
> the version ecatmur fixed up to have overlay support:
> http://dev.gentoo.org/~lv/revcheck2.sh
>
> i'd love to know how many of these insanely useful tools are out there, just
> not in general use. i know for sure imlate is going into my personal
> toolbox. :)
>
>
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>
> Travis Tilley <lv@g.o>
>