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From: tvali <qtvali@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-portage-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] Hello! && portage UI
Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2006 14:56:20
Message-Id: cea53e3c0603140655s4f413ee5o@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] Hello! && portage UI by Brian
1 Ok, i will finish this chat about making portage cache, then learn
2 portage code, then write basic sql modules and when this thing is
3 running, i am more able to be involved in portage GUI as i can
4 understand background of portage, then ...i hope you have time to wait
5 for me :)
6
7 2006/3/14, Brian <dol-sen@×××××.net>:
8 > On Tue, 2006-14-03 at 13:14 +0200, tvali wrote:
9 > > Ok, i was, yes, speaking about kde.
10 > >
11 > > I will check out this Porthole :) I was actually thinking more about c
12 > > ++, but nothing against python -- i was quite a fan of python when i
13 > > first found it.
14 >
15 > I believe Kuroo is in C, maybe c++
16 > >
17 > > I'm new to gentoo, so could you tell me, where i find some clear
18 > > manual for doing the following:
19 > > * Download gentoo source of Porthole
20 >
21 > First I would unmask it and emerge it so that you have all dependencies
22 > installed. enable the debug use flag or emerge pycrash-0.43 separately.
23 >
24 > # echo =app-portage/porthole-0.5.0 /etc/portage/package.unmask
25 > # echo app-portage/porthole /etc/portage/package.keywords
26 > # emerge porthole
27 >
28 > If you like it and want to make a kde interface for it,
29 >
30 > Go to our sourceforge page and do a cvs checkout.
31 > http://sourceforge.net/projects/porthole/
32 >
33 > > * Change that source
34 >
35 > cd into the directory, edit as desired
36 >
37 > > * Build my version of it in such way that my portage tree is OK after
38 > > that
39 > >
40 > then run it from a terminal:
41 >
42 > # ./porthole -l -d
43 >
44 >
45 > Also sign up to the 2 mail lists for porthole so we can discuss any
46 > problems, etc.. This list is for portage development.
47 >
48 > Then any changes can be diffed for commit.
49 >
50 > cvs diff -u > somefile
51 >
52 > Of course I will have to make changes to the interface loading so that
53 > your changes won't kill the gtk interface code.
54 >
55 >
56 > > Are --fetchonly and --usepkgonly somehow related to that?
57 > >
58 > --fetchonly will just get the tarball downloaded into the distfiles
59 > directory.
60 >
61 > --usepkgonly is for telling emerge to use binary packages only.
62 >
63 >
64 > > 2006/3/14, Brian <dol-sen@×××××.net>:
65 > > On Tue, 2006-14-03 at 00:39 +0200, tvali wrote:
66 > > For KDE there are 2 projects that come to mind Kuroo, and
67 > > another one
68 > > that was designed to run in Konguerer, but I don't remember
69 > > the name.
70 > > Kuroo is being actively developed right now, I don't recall
71 > > seeing
72 > > anything recently on the other one.
73 > >
74 > > If your thinking of something being coded in python so that it
75 > > can
76 > > interact with and use portage code for information retrieval
77 > > then check
78 > > out Porthole. It is a gtk app not KDE, but will run on a KDE
79 > > desktop.
80 > > It sounds like it already does things similar to what you had
81 > > in mind.
82 > >
83 > > If you wanted to port the gui code from pygtk to pyQt, I am
84 > > sure that
85 > > there would be a number of KDE users that would be pleased. I
86 > > would
87 > > definitely consider adding an optional KDE interface to it. :)
88 > >
89 > >
90 > > --
91 > > Brian <dol-sen@×××××.net>
92 > >
93 > > --
94 > > gentoo-portage-dev@g.o mailing list
95 > >
96 > >
97 > >
98 > >
99 > > --
100 > > tvali
101 > > (e-mail: "qtvali@×××××.com"; msn: "qtvali@×××××.com";
102 > > icq: "317-492-912")
103 > >
104 > > Ühe eesti internetifirma lehel kohtasin tsitaati:
105 > > If you don't do it excellently, dont do it at all. Because if it's not
106 > > excellent, it won't be profitable or fun, and if you're not in
107 > > business for fun or profit, what the hell are you doing here?
108 > > Robert Townsend
109 > --
110 > Brian <dol-sen@×××××.net>
111 >
112 > --
113 > gentoo-portage-dev@g.o mailing list
114 >
115 >
116
117
118 --
119 tvali
120 (e-mail: "qtvali@×××××.com"; msn: "qtvali@×××××.com";
121 icq: "317-492-912")
122
123 Ühe eesti internetifirma lehel kohtasin tsitaati:
124 If you don't do it excellently, dont do it at all. Because if it's not
125 excellent, it won't be profitable or fun, and if you're not in
126 business for fun or profit, what the hell are you doing here?
127 Robert Townsend
128
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