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On Tuesday 28 February 2006 15:28, Zac Medico wrote: |
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> Hi everyone, |
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> I've been working on a script for doing global updates on packages |
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> installed in the vdb (related to bug 122089). It's called vdb-update [1] |
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> and it does basically the same thing as fixpackages but it works on |
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> installed packages instead of binary packages. |
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> vdb-update has the beginnings of a job progress framework that portage can |
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> use to run various time consuming tasks, display progress, and interrupt |
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> tasks when necessary. When vdb-update and fixpackages are ready, I'd like |
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> to make both of them into emaint modules. |
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> In order to run the script, you will need at least revision 2801 of |
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> portage, so I have made an svn snapshot and ebuild available [2] for the |
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> convenience of anyone who would like to try it. Your feedback on |
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> vdb-update (in it's unfinished state) would be appreciated. |
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> Zac |
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> |
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> [1] http://dev.gentoo.org/~zmedico/portage/branches/2.1/bin/vdb-update.py |
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> [2] |
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> http://dev.gentoo.org/~zmedico/overlay/sys-apps/portage/portage-2.1_pre2006 |
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>0228.ebuild |
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Hi, |
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Thanks, it works for me. |
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Rumen |
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