Hello!
As part of my Gentoo Google Summer of Code activities
I am making use of the Portage Python API. As some of
you can tell much quicker than me
- if the API can answer question X, and
- where to find functionality for task Y
I come here to ask for precise pointers related to
Thanks guys, very helpful!
More questions later.
Sebastian
in case anybody wants to have a look what i made of that you can find my
current sources over here:
http://git.goodpoint.de/?p=smolt-gentoo.git;a=tree;f=client/distros/gentoo;hb=refs/heads/gentoo
thanks again to andy for his code and zac for help on IRC.
any feedback and code review is very
Hello!
In my current code for GSoC/Gentoo/Smolt I access the list of folders
that /etc/make.profile and parents are resolved to:
portage.settings.profiles
I do this to be able access
- profile package.mask,
- user package.mask, and
- user package.unmask
independently, which
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From: Sebastian Pipping sebast...@pipping.org
Date: Fri, 26 Feb 2010 21:19:06 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Move regex creation out of PhaseCheck constructor
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pym/repoman/checks.py | 16 +---
1 files changed, 9
Hello!
I was wondering how to best handle a case with functions that I would
like to collect several exceptions from. Is there an existing standard
way to solve this?
I was thinking of using the composite pattern for this allowing to throw
a tree of exceptions with the option to flatten it for
Hello!
Is moving portage development over to Git planned anytime soon?
Anything keeping you from the move?
Anything I can do to speed it up?
Sebastian
On 02/27/10 04:20, Zac Medico wrote:
Do you have an example case where you want to use this?
Multiple defects in metadata.xml are such a case.
At some point all the exceptions will have to collected, e.g. two
invalid herds are mentioned. In that case a single exception with a
list of invalid
Good idea, thank you!
Sebastian
Hello!
I've been playing with Git conversions of the portage repository.
The current demo conversion from anon SVN is up here:
http://git.goodpoint.de/?p=portage.git;a=summary
NOTE: Do not use it for development, yet - it's a demo!
At the end you can find the script I made for the
On 03/05/10 04:58, Zac Medico wrote:
http://git.goodpoint.de/?p=portage.git;a=summary
NOTE: Do not use it for development, yet - it's a demo!
It looks very nice to me. I noticed that it preserved continuity
when branches got moved around, so the history seems like it will be
fully
FAQ
https://git.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/GitFaq
Questions?
==
- Check #git on Freenode -- very helpful
- Mail me
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Thanks for reading!
Sebastian Pipping
Hello!
As the prefix branch is not the last case where people may run into
problems with merging due to the conversion from SVN to Git I feel like
writing about it here.
In this mail
- The problem
- Merges in SVN
- Merges in Git
- Consequences
- Dealing with it
- The
On 03/26/10 06:23, Sebastian Pipping wrote:
Consequences
So Git relies on the existence of merge commits to detect what has been
merged already. Creating all these merge commits is a tough job for a
conversion tool (like svn2git) as it would have to distinguish between
cases
On 07/21/10 15:49, Nathan Eloe wrote:
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Hello portage developers
My name is Nathan Eloe, and I'm working on a Google Summer of Code
project in which I'm writing a library that will create an Abstract
Syntax Tree of the bash grammar. In essence I am
On 07/21/10 16:56, Sebastian Pipping wrote:
A few things I haven't seen, yet:
# Adjacent changes in quotation
echo abc''def # Makes abcdef
# Escape sequences like ..
echo abc\def
# Invocation from ibnside strings
echo foo $(echo foo), bar `echo bar`
# Heredocs (and their variations ..)
cat
On 11/27/10 13:27, Lionel Orry wrote:
[Lionel] In fact you can customize the toc level with a 'toclevel'
attribute on the command-line, see the Makefile. I did several tries
but you can get the same level as the original doc with '-a
toclevels=4' if I remember well. In short, it's not a
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