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> From: Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com> |
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> On Thursday 25 February 2010 05:14:06 ubiquitous1980 wrote: |
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> > BRM wrote: |
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> > > I am interested in finding a GUI interface for working with portage, |
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> > > preferably for KDE4. Namely b/c I am getting a little tired of having |
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> > > konsole windows open and not being able to keep track of where I am in |
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> > > the emerge update process - something a GUI _ought_ to be able to |
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> > > resolve. |
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> > In the case that there is not a GUI tool, why not run as root # tail -f |
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> > /var/log/emerge.log |
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> > It tells you what is being installed at present |
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> > Another, to see what you are downloading is # tail -f |
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> > /var/log/emerge-fetch.log |
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> Set the terminal up so that it displays the running command in the titlebar. |
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I do have that setup - and it _use_ to work just fine. However, now it just shows "python 2.6". |
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So I'm looking for a better solution. |
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The 'genlop' tool that Dale suggested looks like a great find; so looks like I have something even if I don't find a GUI. |
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> From: Ronan Arraes Jardim Chagas |
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<ronisbr@×××××.com> |
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> Me and Locke Shinseiko are developing a graphical tool to make |
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portage daily |
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> tasks easier. It is called KPortageTray and you |
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can find it on app- |
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> portage/kportagetray at kde overlay. |
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While I like the idea of having something in the system-tray, I'm not a fan of you solution. |
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I'd much rather have a nice GUI interface wrapped around it all. |
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BTW, you have the same problem if the SSH connection or KConsole is closed during an emerge. |
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You can get around that using 'screen' kind of, but needless to say - just using KConsole doesn't solve the problem. |
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Also, with KDE/Qt you can wrap processes (QProcess, not sure what the KDE wrapper is) and get their I/O, |
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so you could probably try wrapping a detached process of the desired command and then just pull its I/O. |
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I would be surprised if the other GUIs were not either doing that or directly working with emerge/portage via an API (if there is one aside from the command-line). |
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Ben |
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