[gentoo-portage-dev] Questions regarding the new portage API (savior branch)

Hello everyone, some days ago I asked about a portage API on #gentoo-portage and they pointed me to the new portage rewrite (saviour branch). Because I want to do a complete OO rewrite of my program glcu (glcu.sf.net) a OO portage API would be really useful. And I think this would be useful for an

[gentoo-portage-dev] vdb-update script (for global updates) with job progress framework

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi everyone, I've been working on a script for doing global updates on packages installed in the vdb (related to bug 122089). It's called vdb-update [1] and it does basically the same thing as fixpackages but it works on installed packages instead

Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] vdb-update script (for global updates) with job progress framework

On Tuesday 28 February 2006 22:28, Zac Medico wrote: > vdb-update has the beginnings of a job progress framework that portage can > use to run various time consuming tasks, display progress, and interrupt > tasks when necessary. When vdb-update and fixpackages are ready, I'd like > to make both

Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] vdb-update script (for global updates) with job progress framework

On Tuesday 28 February 2006 15:28, Zac Medico wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I've been working on a script for doing global updates on packages > installed in the vdb (related to bug 122089). It's called vdb-update [1] > and it does basically the same thing as fixpackages but it works on > installed pa

[gentoo-portage-dev] Switching LOCALE during build?

Hi all, this is an idea we had at FOSDEM to make bugreports easier to read: During build portage should change the locale to en_us so that any error messages are easy to read even if the user has set it differently. This shouldn't affect users much and could get rid of the bugreports where it is

Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] Switching LOCALE during build?

On Tuesday 28 February 2006 10:55, Patrick Lauer wrote: > During build portage should change the locale to en_us no, C would be a saner setting > so that any error > messages are easy to read even if the user has set it differently. This > shouldn't affect users much and could get rid of the bug

Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] Switching LOCALE during build?

Patrick Lauer wrote: Hi all, this is an idea we had at FOSDEM to make bugreports easier to read: During build portage should change the locale to en_us so that any error messages are easy to read even if the user has set it differently. This shouldn't affect users much and could get rid of the