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 info

[gentoo-dev] automated extended information gathering

2007-07-07 Thread Mike Frysinger
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: atom [command to pass to system()] sys-libs/glibc /lib/libc.so.6 then when people run

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: atom [command to pass to system()] sys-libs/glibc

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: atom

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 function

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 function

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 specific

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, 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 package

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 that you wont be

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 functions, 1:

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 bust

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 package