Re: [gentoo-dev] [gentoo-user] new package notification

[Marko Mikulicic]

Matthew Kennedy wrote:
> Gregg <gregg@××.am> writes:
>
>
>>I have mentioned this a couple times to usually no response.  I feel that
>>it is an important feature , I was hoping to get some sort of response to
>>this as to  how it should be done, or a response saying "we are already
>>working on that". Either way is fine by me :)

I wrote a script that do this some times ago. I have still to fix a 
minor glitch before it's incorporated
in gentoolkit, but it's usable.

<snip filename='emerge-rsync'>
#!/bin/sh
BASE=/var/cache
USE_COLORS=yes

# end user configuration section
. /etc/make.globals
BEFORE=$BASE/ebuild-rsync.before
AFTER=$BASE/ebuild-rsync.after
NEW=$BASE/ebuild-rsync.new
REMOVED=$BASE/ebuild-rsync.removed

if [ "$USE_COLORS" == "yes" ]; then
  RED="\033[;31m"
  GREEN="\033[;32m"
  NORMAL="\033[m"
fi

function portagetree () {
  find $PORTDIR -type d -mindepth 2 -maxdepth 2
}

function inherit {
  true
}

# do it
portagetree >$BEFORE
emerge $@ rsync
portagetree >$AFTER
diff $BEFORE $AFTER | grep ">" | sed "s/> //g" > $NEW
diff $BEFORE $AFTER | grep "<" | sed "s/< //g" > $REMOVED

# cleanup
rm $BEFORE $AFTER

# display new ebuilds
if ! diff -q $NEW /dev/null >/dev/null; then
  echo
  echo New ebuilds:
  for i in $(cat $NEW); do
   DESCRIPTION="$i/*.ebuild ${RED}does not exist$NORMAL"
   EBUILD=$(ls $i/*.ebuild --sort=time  2>/dev/null | head -n 1)
   [ -z "$EBUILD" ] || . $EBUILD
   echo -e $GREEN${i##$PORTDIR/}$NORMAL: $DESCRIPTION
  done
fi

# display removed ebuilds
if ! diff -q $REMOVED /dev/null >/dev/null; then
  echo
  echo Removed ebuilds:
   for i in $(cat $REMOVED); do
      echo -e $RED${i##$PORTDIR/}$NORMAL
   done
fi
</snip>