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From: ng0 <ng0@××.is>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: listing portage/overlay packages by dev ?
Date: Thu, 02 Jun 2016 16:50:28
Message-Id: 20160602164958.GA10022@khazad-dum
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Re: listing portage/overlay packages by dev ? by James
1 On 2016-06-02(04:37:00+0000), James wrote:
2 > ng0 <ng0 <at> n0.is> writes:
3 >
4 > > > Is there a consistent semantic to at least list all of the portage tree
5 > > > packages there are listed on as maintainer?
6 > > > Is there a universal, slick way to list the overlay packages they are
7 > > > working on (github)?
8 >
9 > > What about checking out the portage repo and doing the native git search
10 > > in there via log?
11 >
12 > I was actually hoping for something much simpler and always as current as the
13 > last sync of protage and the corresponding overlays (layman syntax). Perhaps
14 > an option I missed in the 'q' applets (portage-utils) or gentoolkit ?
15 >
16 >
17 > If nothing exist, I'd consider writing some C (q applets) or python
18 > (gentoolkit) code to perform this searching task. It wont be comprehensive,
19 > but it should work on both the protage tree and the official overlays.
20 >
21 >
22 > Thoughts and ideas are welcome.
23 >
24 >
25 > James
26
27 I'm not sure if it works like this.
28 You have the metadata.xml files and Changelog files, as far as I know those
29 are the only name -> package relations you can get when not using git.
30
31 I might be wrong, so a tool like this could be useful if one needs it.
32
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34 ♥Ⓐ ng0
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