Do you find yourself with lots of related packages with the same version to
bump?
Do those package have a special order in which they need to be bumped?
If those sound like problems you run into, then I have a simple crude tool for
you called ebuild-bumper.sh[1]. A simple crude bash script that using an
external file that can bump many packages in a given order. This can save a
good deal of time on routine version bumps across many related packages of the
same version/slot.
This script uses external files[2] to specify the area of the tree, base name,
and packages in order to be revision bumped. At the same time it can clean
while it bumps, not recommended as it will break depgraph and cause it to
fail. However once you have bumped a set of packages. You can turn around and
re-run it to clean out older versions.
It is pretty nifty and can save time. If any bump fails, the script stops. So
you can manually intervene. Then you can resume bumping the rest of the
packages.
I chose bash to keep it simple, and I hate python, so not sure what other I
might have used. I do not believe it need be complex requiring use of other
languages but possibly. The package sort aspect for cleaning and what not
could be improved upon and done easier by other languages. Though sort is
pretty powerful if given proper arguments.
Anyway look it over, duplicate and make better if you like, or send me
patches, etc. Maybe eventually this can be adopted as an official Gentoo tool
and added to a developer toolkit. None of that matters to me really. I made it
to save myself time and address a problem I was facing. If it others find it
useful great :)
1. https://github.com/Obsidian-StudiosInc/ebuild-bumper
2. https://github.com/Obsidian-StudiosInc/ebuild-bumper/tree/master/bump_pkgs
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William L. Thomson Jr.
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