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Hi everyone! |
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I usually send these reports every weekend but due to problems with my |
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email provider I've postponed this email until today. Sorry about this. |
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Brief summary |
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The Gentoostats project aims to gather statistics about the installed |
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packages on Gentoo systems in order to provide useful information to |
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both users and developers. |
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Status: on schedule. |
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Things accomplished this week |
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- Refactored the submission parsing code. |
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- The server can now display basic stats for each host. |
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- Changed the client's behaviour when it comes to reporting USE flags. |
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Previously the client used gentoolkit's FlagAnalyzer to report 'plus', |
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'minus' and 'unset' USE flags for each installed package. However, some |
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manually enabled/disabled USE flags (meaning use flags defined in |
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package.use) could be reported as 'unset' (happens if they already exist |
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in the profile/make.conf). Thus, I've changed the code to now directly |
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query vardb for the 'IUSE', 'PKGUSE', and 'USE' flags of each package. |
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With this change the server now directly receives the following |
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information about each installed package: |
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- Available USE flags (IUSE and IUSE defaults) |
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- Actual package.use specification (PKGUSE) |
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- Actual, final enabled USE flags (USE) |
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However, this has made the client slower, since it now has to access |
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more files. I'll probably ask this on gentoo-dev later, but if somebody |
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would like to share his/her opinion on whether IUSE and PKGUSE should be |
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reported by default, please do so here. Thank you! |
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Plans for next week |
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1. Create more statistics pages on the server. |
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2. Start working on an API for the server. |
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3. Continue working on the inclusion of gentoostats in gentoolkit. |
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4. Make sure that the server deployment can happen before/during the |
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midterm evaluations. |
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Further information |
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You can find the project repositories here: |
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https://github.com/gg7/gentoostats |
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https://github.com/gg7/gentoostats_server |
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If you have any questions and/or ideas about the project please don't |
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hesitate to get in touch with me. |
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Regards, |
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George |
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