Hi, everyone. My time for Gentoo is quite limited right now (you gotta start working for money at some point :)), and the little time I have I'm trying to use for the Gentoo work I consider most important. This sadly means that many of my past tools are earning their share of bitrot and would really use a new contributors, or possibly even full-time upstream maintainers :).
Here's a long list of projects along with short description, their state
and planned TODO items that I won't have time to implement anytime soon.
app-admin/eclean-kernel
The tool to clean up old kernels. A bit controversial in the end
because /boot is a mess.
status: works with some /boot layouts, fails hard on some, has some
known bugs/requests
TODO:
- figure out how it sanely could work,
- support /boot shared between multiple systems,
- support BootloaderSpec (maybe),
- clean up the code, possibly rewrite in something saner than Python
(C++?).
app-cdr/mirage2iso
Quite an old tool to convert various image formats to .iso using
libMirage.
status: working, no known bugs, may use a little cleanup
TODO:
- support selecting track to read (right now it reads first supported
one),
- support extracting multiple tracks (sessions) -- options to pass
track list and output filename pattern,
- support converting to .bin + .toc/.cue,
- support for more track types (right now, Mode 1 & Mode 2 form 1 are
supported),
- support for audio tracks (how? external converter? a library?).
app-portage/cpuinfo2cpuflags
The tool to get CPU_FLAGS_X86 for your system :). Not really
abandoned but I have some TODO items I won't be able to do soon.
status: working, no known bugs
TODO:
- replace /proc/cpuinfo parsing with CPUID assembly/intrinsics --
support more kernels than just Linux,
- possibly extend to non-x86 arches.
app-portage/diffmask
A tool to maintain package group unmasks in sync, and clean up stale
unmasks. Quite specific since it requires unmasks to be copied
exactly from mask file.
status: quite working, not exactly proud of the design
No real TODO items but it would be nice to think a bit about
the design and figure out if we couldn't do something more user-
friendly (i.e. not being that strictly bound to package.mask).
app-portage/flaggie
The package.use (& make.conf) flag management tool. Pretty high
priority.
status: rather working, has a few bugs, certainly would use some new
Portage features
TODO:
- remove make.conf editing support (it's very complex and broken --
can eat random '$' from the file in some cases),
- therefore: edit global flags via '*/*' entries in package.use,
- support writing 'FOO_BAR:' format for USE_EXPAND in package.use,
- support parsing 'FOO_BAR:' format for USE_EXPAND on command-line
(i.e. 'flaggie libfoo VIDEO_CARDS: +radeon -nvidia'),
- remove implicit '*' expansion in package names and flag names --
package.use can handle '*', so leave it as is and just expand it
when checking if the flags are supported,
- possibly clean up package.use writer (or rewrite it since I'm
no longer able to figure out how it works exactly :)).
app-portage/gentoopm
A wrapper providing nice API to all three Package Managers. Used by
gpyutils, smart-live-rebuild...
status: stuck in EAPI 4 era, might have some hidden bugs
TODO:
- add APIs for EAPI 5 -- but this requires Package Manager APIs first,
- maybe some cleanup.
app-portage/install-mask
A tool to update INSTALL_MASK in make.conf using well-known file
groups. Uses make.conf manipulation code from flaggie.
status: working, make.conf manipulation broken as in flaggie
TODO:
- the tool should be killed, and INSTALL_MASK group support should be
moved into Portage :). Alike:
INSTALL_MASK="@systemd @locale -@locale_pl"
with matches being applied sequentially, and groups being defined
in $repo/metadata/install-mask.conf [and masters].
app-portage/pms-test-suite
A GSoC project and as such, totally abandoned. Not sure if anybody
really cares these days.
status: stuck in EAPI 4 era, waiting for EAPI 5 in gentoopm...
TODO:
- support EAPI 5,
- find some use for it?
dev-util/atomic-install
A nice one -- tool to quasi-atomically install files from $D to live
system. The idea is to replace live files as fast as possible,
and quickly revert that if it fails in the middle. Never finished but
nevertheless a good idea :). If someone's up for it, I'd love to see
it working one day.
status: never reached 'fully working' state
How it was supposed to work (and mostly works):
- writes 'journal' synchronously with file lists and current status,
- copies (CoWs, hardlinks) files from $D to live system renaming them
to .${filename}.NEW.${random-id-from-journal},
- copies (CoWs, hardlinks) existing files in live system to backups
as .${filename}.OLD.${random-id-from-journal},
- does a quick rename() run to replace files in live system to .NEW
variants,
- if all goes fine, removes .OLD files and the journal,
- if it fails, does a quick rename() run to replace files in live
system back with .OLD variants and cleans up copies afterwards,
- possibly: use some fancy btrfs features :).
sys-apps/uam
The udev-based automounter. Used by a lot of people who don't like
udisks, and also on some non-Gentoo distros.
status: working, one known bug :)
No real TODO items. I simply don't use it anymore, so I can't handle
bugs properly :).
www-servers/pshs
A simple HTTP(s) server using libevent to share files passed
on command-line. This one I'll probably keep maintaining, yet there
are some features I'd love to see patches for :).
status: working, there's some problem with UPnP on my system
TODO:
- figure out why it longer figures out the external IP via UPnP
(maybe libminiupnpc API change),
- support HTTP authentication,
- support uploading files (via upload form),
- support recursive directory sharing,
- awesome, pretty ncurses output with progressbars on active
downloads using background color (like aptitude),
- think of more fun features to support!
x11-libs/libtinynotify*
x11-misc/sw-notify-send
x11-misc/tinynotify-send
A 'more lightweight' library to send notification-daemon
notifications. Its cool feature is support for pseudo-systemwide
notifications -- if you give it root privileges, it's going to look
hard for active D-Bus sessions and try to send notifications to all
of them!
status: works, didn't see a change in a long time
TODO:
- figure out if there's anything to do :),
- maybe improve the systemwide API -- right now it's rather dumb.
--
Best regards,
Michał Górny
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