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On Fri, Nov 4, 2016 at 8:30 PM, M. J. Everitt <m.j.everitt@×××.org> wrote: |
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> Apologies, getting ahead of myself here .. there must be a portage |
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> utility, but I've forgotten which one interrogates metadata .. I'll |
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> defer to a more authoritative source ... |
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There might be a command line utility if you're doing things the shell way. |
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But, from that python script I linked the relevant part is: |
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from portage.xml.metadata import MetaDataXML |
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metxml = path+"/"+category+"/"+pkgname+"/metadata.xml" |
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maints=[] |
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try: |
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pkg_md = MetaDataXML(metxml,"/usr/portage/metadata/herds.xml") |
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for maint in pkg_md.maintainers(): |
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maints.append(maint.email) |
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except IOError: pass |
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Just feed that api call with a metadata.xml. Hopefuly it works with |
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the projects.xml syntax as herds.xml is of course defunct. I'd |
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check the portage API docs as there might be some improvements there. |
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The portage api is actually fairly powerful and far superior to a lot |
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of stuff that gets done with grep. It just needs a bit of time |
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getting used to it since there aren't a lot of docs/examples/etc |
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floating around. The script that came out of was designed to find |
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packages that depend on packages that expose subslots but which don't |
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define slot operator deps. Granted, not everything in that list |
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should be using them, and by now I imagine it is almost entirely false |
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positives, but it shows the sort of thing you can do with a couple of |
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lines of python that would be an incredible pain to do any other way. |
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I believe paludis also exposes some APIs that probably could also be |
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used. |
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