Re: [gentoo-dev] Packages with non-existent herd in metadata.xml

[Ned Ludd]

On Wed, 2004-10-06 at 13:57, Sven Wegener wrote:
> On 2004-10-06 at 11:23 -0400, Ned Ludd wrote:
> > metadata fans might like this patch for emerge.
> > http://dev.gentoo.org/~solar/portage_misc/emerge-metadata-1.332.patch
>
> You als might want to have a look at my eshowmaintainer I use for
> bug-wrangling. It uses herds.xml to display herd email and maintainers
> of the herd. You might need to adjust the location of the herds.xml.

thanks it does indeed look handy. I'm reinstalling dev-libs/libxml2 with
python support now.

Adding the <longdescription> field </longdescription> when one exists to
that might be nice addition to it's display.

>
> You can call it with one or several packages on command line or call it
> without arguments to start it in interactive mode.
>
> Output looks like:
>
> sven@luna ~ $ eshowmaintainer
> > baselayout
>
> sys-apps/baselayout
>         Maintainer: azarah@g.o
>         Maintainer: agriffis@g.o
>         Herd: base-system
>                 eMail: base-system@g.o
>                 Maintainer: azarah@g.o
>                 Maintainer: agriffis@g.o
>                 Maintainer: avenj@g.o
>                 Maintainer: drobbins@g.o
>                 Maintainer: gmsoft@g.o
>                 Maintainer: kumba@g.o
>                 Maintainer: lu_zero@g.o
>                 Maintainer: pebenito@g.o
>                 Maintainer: weeve@g.o
>                 Maintainer: seemant@g.o
>                 Maintainer: vapier@g.o
>                 Maintainer: chainsaw@g.o
>                 Maintainer: g2boojum@g.o
>
> >
>
> http://dev.gentoo.org/~swegener/tools/eshowmaintainer
-- 
Ned Ludd <solar@g.o>
Gentoo (hardened,security,infrastructure,embedded,toolchain) Developer