On Sat, Dec 28, 2019 at 3:43 AM Kent Fredric <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Sat, 28 Dec 2019 11:35:49 +0000 > Michael 'veremitz' Everitt <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Note: we're nnot acttually talking about replacing portage here, just > > creating a tool ((((thiink php script web tthingy)) that will do some of > > the pre-screeninng worrrrk that AT hate (eg.... what kensiington did > with > > stable-bbot) > > > > * with apologies for keyboard/remote-access lagggg creating typo hell. > > But, doing that requires viewing realised copies of ebuilds, which > requires interpreting eclasses and variable interpolation, which > requires bash sourcing, which requires a mountain of portage hell. > > Yes, sharing the stable-bot logic would probably be fine. > > But it doesn't use a database AFAIK, it would likely just be making use > of the MD5Cache (either directly, or indirectly via portage APIs) > > But I won't be volunteering, because I won't touch python. > You could of course work together with someone else to write the tool? -A
