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Hello fellow, |
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Me and Locke Shinseiko are developing a graphical tool to make portage daily |
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tasks easier. It is called KPortageTray and you can find it on app- |
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portage/kportagetray at kde overlay. |
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It doesn't have a version relased yet, only git, because we need to implement |
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some features and correct some bugs to make it good to use with KDE 4.4. |
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My idea was a very different approach of himerge, portato, porthole, etc. |
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I decided to use a very simple approach: it is a program that stays on systray |
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and when you choose some action, it opens the konsole with the command you |
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want using kdesu for root access. So, if you click at "upgrade world", it will |
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open a konsole with kdesu and will run "emerge -vaNDu world". This is because |
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the GUI may introduce an instability point at every process, since it can |
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crash and make the upgrade process fail. Sabayon has a similar tool (sulfur) |
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and users and devs advice to use it only for minor upgrades. So, with |
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kportagetray, when konsole is opened, the process is totally detached from the |
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GUI. Consequently, you can even close kportagetray without interrupting the |
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selected action. |
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It won't substitute the entire CLI of portage, but it is aimed for people who |
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is tired to type the same commands every time to upgrade the system or do |
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something else. |
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I'm implementing some stuff to make life easier, like a periodic upgrade |
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checks with a system message on systray (like Windows update program and |
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sabayon system). |
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When we get something good for daily use, I'll let you know. |
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Regards, |
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Ronan Arraes Jardim Chagas |
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Control and Automation Engineer |
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Gentoo Foundation Member |
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Em Qua 24 Fev 2010, às 23:40:23, BRM escreveu: |
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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 the |
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> emerge update process - something a GUI _ought_ to be able to resolve. |
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> |
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> In googling, I noticed Kuroo, but it's no longer maintained (nearly 2 years |
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> out of date now, so it would have to have been KDE3) so it's been |
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> understandably removed from mainline portage - though I also noticed |
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> information on a Kuroo overlay. |
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> And I also came across Porthole; however, all versions are marked |
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> Unstable/Testing (~) at the moment. |
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> Can anyone give some advice on these or others? |
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> Ben |
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