[gentoo-dev] Re: I want to steal your tools

[Ryan Hill]

Heath N. Caldwell wrote:
> On 2008-02-04 14:51, Ryan Hill wrote:
>> Can someone provide a tool that given a package name simply prints the
>> category or cat/pkg, or if ambiguous, prints the multiple cat/pkgs or
>> returns an error code?  I don't care what it's written in as long as it's
>> relatively quick.  I'm sick of depending on udept (which is an incredible
>> tool but a lot heavy for a simple shell script) just to get a simple
>> category.
>
> What about something like this:
>
> --
> #!/bin/bash
>
> source /etc/make.globals
> source /etc/make.conf
>
> for i in ${PORTDIR} ${PORTDIR_OVERLAY}; do
> 	(cd $i; a=(*/$1); [ -e ${a[0]} ] && ls -1 -d */$1)
> done | sort | uniq
> --
>
> It's really fast, at least.

Also very good, thanks.  Instead of sourcing, we can instead use

$ portageq envvar PORTDIR
$ portageq portdir_overlay

How do paludis and pkgcore make this info available?


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