Re: [gentoo-dev] automated extended information gathering

2007-07-08 Thread Mike Auty
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Kent Fredric wrote: > > Ok, I've re-thought some of my ideas and tried to come up with a more > concise explanation > with some practical example syntax. The basic concept of 'check' was > 'this will work even if the package aint installed yet' and in

Re: [gentoo-dev] automated extended information gathering

2007-07-07 Thread Kent Fredric
On 7/8/07, Mike Frysinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Sunday 08 July 2007, Kent Fredric wrote: > Ok, I've re-thought some of my ideas and tried to come up with a more > concise explanation > with some practical example syntax. The basic concept of 'check' was > 'this will work even if the packa

Re: [gentoo-dev] automated extended information gathering

2007-07-07 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Sunday 08 July 2007, Kent Fredric wrote: > Ok, I've re-thought some of my ideas and tried to come up with a more > concise explanation > with some practical example syntax. The basic concept of 'check' was > 'this will work even if the package aint installed yet' and info was > 'for working but

Re: [gentoo-dev] automated extended information gathering

2007-07-07 Thread Kent Fredric
On 7/8/07, Mike Frysinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Saturday 07 July 2007, Kent Fredric wrote: > On 7/8/07, Mike Frysinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Saturday 07 July 2007, Kent Fredric wrote: > > > Implementation details wise, I would like to see packages have > > > possibly 2 functio

Re: [gentoo-dev] automated extended information gathering

2007-07-07 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Saturday 07 July 2007, Kent Fredric wrote: > On 7/8/07, Mike Frysinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Saturday 07 July 2007, Kent Fredric wrote: > > > Implementation details wise, I would like to see packages have > > > possibly 2 functions, > > > 1: Info, and 2: Check. > > > Reason Being tha

Re: [gentoo-dev] automated extended information gathering

2007-07-07 Thread Kent Fredric
On 7/8/07, Mike Frysinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Saturday 07 July 2007, Kent Fredric wrote: > Implementation details wise, I would like to see packages have > possibly 2 functions, > 1: Info, and 2: Check. > Reason Being that you wont be able to fetch installation status info > on a packag

Re: [gentoo-dev] automated extended information gathering

2007-07-07 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Saturday 07 July 2007, Kent Fredric wrote: > Implementation details wise, I would like to see packages have > possibly 2 functions, > 1: Info, and 2: Check. > Reason Being that you wont be able to fetch installation status info > on a package thats not installed, and if a package is failing to >

Re: [gentoo-dev] automated extended information gathering

2007-07-07 Thread Kent Fredric
On 7/8/07, Kevin Lacquement <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Marius Mauch wrote: > > 5) considering 3), I'd rather see such information be specified by > ebuilds somehow, not a global file (think about overlays). Maybe by > installing a script in a specifi

Re: [gentoo-dev] automated extended information gathering

2007-07-07 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Saturday 07 July 2007, Kevin Lacquement wrote: > Marius Mauch wrote: > > 5) considering 3), I'd rather see such information be specified by > > ebuilds somehow, not a global file (think about overlays). Maybe by > > installing a script in a specific location or so. > > How about adding another f

Re: [gentoo-dev] automated extended information gathering

2007-07-07 Thread Kevin Lacquement
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Marius Mauch wrote: > > 5) considering 3), I'd rather see such information be specified by > ebuilds somehow, not a global file (think about overlays). Maybe by > installing a script in a specific location or so. > > Marius How about adding another fun

Re: [gentoo-dev] automated extended information gathering

2007-07-07 Thread Marius Mauch
On Sat, 7 Jul 2007 17:43:44 -0400 Mike Frysinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > often times when i get a bug report about certain packages, there's > information about that package that i usually ask for ... i wonder if > this can be automated > > perhaps extend the syntax of profiles/info_pkgs: >

Re: [gentoo-dev] automated extended information gathering

2007-07-07 Thread Petteri Räty
Mike Frysinger kirjoitti: > often times when i get a bug report about certain packages, there's > information about that package that i usually ask for ... i wonder if this > can be automated > > perhaps extend the syntax of profiles/info_pkgs: > [command to pass to system()] > sys-libs/glibc /