Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: I want to steal your tools

2008-02-05 Thread Santiago M. Mola
On Feb 5, 2008 4:21 AM, Ryan Hill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Heath N. Caldwell wrote: > > On 2008-02-04 14:51, Ryan Hill wrote: > >> Can someone provide a tool that given a package name simply prints the > >> category or cat/pkg, or if ambiguous, prints the multiple cat/pkgs or > >> returns an er

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: I want to steal your tools

2008-02-04 Thread Jeroen Roovers
On Mon, 04 Feb 2008 21:21:14 -0600 Ryan Hill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Also very good, thanks. Instead of sourcing, we can instead use > > $ portageq envvar PORTDIR Or simply `portageq portdir'... > $ portageq portdir_overlay I remember reading you wanted a program that did the job *fast*.

[gentoo-dev] Re: I want to steal your tools

2008-02-04 Thread Ryan Hill
Heath N. Caldwell wrote: On 2008-02-04 14:51, Ryan Hill wrote: Can someone provide a tool that given a package name simply prints the category or cat/pkg, or if ambiguous, prints the multiple cat/pkgs or returns an error code? I don't care what it's written in as long as it's relatively quick

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: I want to steal your tools

2008-02-04 Thread Heath N. Caldwell
On 2008-02-04 14:51, Ryan Hill wrote: > Can someone provide a tool that given a package name simply prints the > category or cat/pkg, or if ambiguous, prints the multiple cat/pkgs or > returns an error code? I don't care what it's written in as long as it's > relatively quick. I'm sick of depe

[gentoo-dev] Re: I want to steal your tools

2008-02-04 Thread Ryan Hill
Thomas de Grenier de Latour wrote: On 2008/02/04, Ryan Hill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Can someone provide a tool that given a package name simply prints the category or cat/pkg, or if ambiguous, prints the multiple cat/pkgs or returns an error code? I don't care what it's written in as long as

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: I want to steal your tools

2008-02-04 Thread Thomas de Grenier de Latour
On 2008/02/04, Ryan Hill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Can someone provide a tool that given a package name simply prints > the category or cat/pkg, or if ambiguous, prints the multiple > cat/pkgs or returns an error code? I don't care what it's written in > as long as it's relatively quick. As

[gentoo-dev] Re: I want to steal your tools

2008-02-04 Thread Ryan Hill
Ciaran McCreesh wrote: On Mon, 04 Feb 2008 15:59:26 -0600 Ryan Hill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I want something that anybody can use in their scripts without having to install paludis What's the difference between installing Paludis and installing Perl in order to use a tool? Ha. Nice edit.

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: I want to steal your tools

2008-02-04 Thread Vlastimil Babka
Ciaran McCreesh wrote: On Mon, 04 Feb 2008 15:59:26 -0600 Ryan Hill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I want something that anybody can use in their scripts without having to install paludis What's the difference between installing Paludis and installing Perl in order to use a tool? About 10 minute

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: I want to steal your tools

2008-02-04 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Mon, 04 Feb 2008 15:59:26 -0600 Ryan Hill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I want something that anybody can use in their scripts without having > to install paludis What's the difference between installing Paludis and installing Perl in order to use a tool? -- Ciaran McCreesh signature.asc Des

[gentoo-dev] Re: I want to steal your tools

2008-02-04 Thread Ryan Hill
Ryan Hill wrote: Can someone provide a tool that given a package name simply prints the category or cat/pkg, or if ambiguous, prints the multiple cat/pkgs or returns an error code? I don't care what it's written in as long as it's relatively quick. I'm sick of depending on udept (which is an

[gentoo-dev] Re: I want to steal your tools

2008-02-04 Thread Ryan Hill
Alec Warner wrote: * Tool being a tool useful for gentoo development, dealing with profiles, ebuilds, configs, etc. Tool does not include your penis or other genitellia. defeature: http://dev.gentoo.org/~dirtyepic/bin/defeature [requires app-portage/udept] disables FEATURES per-package,

[gentoo-dev] Re: I want to steal your tools

2008-02-03 Thread Ryan Hill
Alec Warner wrote: So it seems to me that we have tons of tools out there that people have writtten and we need to aggregrate and document them. See pythonhead's script repo? http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-67849.html I think it's been down for a while now though. -- fonts,

[gentoo-dev] Re: I want to steal your tools

2008-02-03 Thread Dirk Tilger
On 2008-02-03, Hans de Graaff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > For XEmacs there is the pebuild script which tracks upstreams packages > and automatically bumps ebuilds for them when newer versions are > available: http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/lisp/emacs/pebuild.gz > > For Ruby Richard just wrote a sim

[gentoo-dev] Re: I want to steal your tools

2008-02-02 Thread Christian Faulhammer
Hi, "Alec Warner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > So reply with a URL pointing at your tool*. Please don't attach your > tool to the email as that would make our mail server sad. If you need > space; e-mail your tool to me (not the list) and I will host it > somewhere. http://gatt.sourceforge.net/> is