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On Sun, 2002-01-13 at 19:39, Miguel Sousa Filipe wrote: |
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> Hi all! |
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> Allthough i'm not using gentoo for a while, i'm tracking, the mailing |
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> lists.. to check out how its going. |
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> About qpgk, i believe that if it's not allready quite a handy "pocket knife" |
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> in Gentoo, it will become one, I find it so "cool" and practical, basically, |
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> ITS A MUST in gentoo. |
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Thanks :-) |
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> It would be nice to also check, and "confront" the available version, with |
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> the installed version of a package that has just been queried. Something |
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> like: |
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> I do not know if it does this.. but it would be nice.. to see the version |
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> of the installed and the latest version available. |
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Proper implementation would require checking with package mask. |
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I'll think if it can be done in bash. |
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This kind of tool should be implemented in python. |
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I wrote it initialy as a replacer for my frequent |
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"grep ... /var/db/pkg/*/*/CONTENTS" etc. stuff. It quite involved since |
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then, and now it's kind of reached state when it's easier to reimplement |
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it in Python then add some useful feature to the existing bash |
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implementation. I'll defently do it when I have time. Expect it to be |
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ready soon :-). Any feature requests? |
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BTW, Python is my weapon of choise for most non trivial scripting. |
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The reasons I used bash, are: |
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1) I didn't want to reimplement grep :-) |
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grep/sed stuff is realy fast. "pkgsearch portage" is 10 times |
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faster then "pkgsearch portage". ( well, I guess reimplementation |
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of pkgsearch to not allways load the entire db would help) |
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2) I wanted it quick and I allready had some bash scripts that |
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perform a single task. |
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1) it was fun |
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