Portage utility: bumper

Pythonhead · Posted: Sun Aug 03, 2003 4:18 am Post subject: Portage utility: bumper

I wrote a utility for portage named "bumper".

You notice that version 2.0 is out for your favorite software, but portage only has 1.0 (foobar-1.0.ebuild) and you want it now.

bumper will copy the 1.0 ebuild to your portage overlay directory, creating the necessary directories, and name it foobar-2.0.ebuild. It will then create a digest, which will also download the new package. It also copies any non-digest files in ${FILESDIR}.

Its a Python script you can get here:
http://dev.gentoo.org/~pythonhead/bumper/bumper-0.0.10

Usage:

pjp · Administrator Joined: 16 Apr 2002 Posts: 20067

Moved from Portage & Programming.

TheCoop · Posted: Sun Aug 03, 2003 3:39 pm Post subject:

wouldnt it be better as a bash script?

ie:

AgenT · Apprentice Joined: 18 May 2003 Posts: 280

Neat! I think this calls for a request!

Pythonhead · Posted: Sun Aug 03, 2003 4:51 pm Post subject:

floam · Posted: Sun Aug 03, 2003 4:58 pm Post subject:

It kinda pukes with something like:

Pythonhead · Posted: Sun Aug 03, 2003 5:20 pm Post subject:

floam · Posted: Mon Aug 04, 2003 1:44 am Post subject:

Also gets messed up if people have multiple PORTDIR_OVERLAY's. In recent versions of portage it is legal to do a
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage /usr/local/portage2" or similar, which I happen to use. Could the script only use the first directory? Right now it dies with a Couldn't copy file error.
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Pythonhead · Posted: Mon Aug 04, 2003 2:40 am Post subject:

floam · Posted: Mon Aug 04, 2003 4:54 am Post subject:

PythonHead: You see a few mentions of it in the portage changelog. The first takes precidence. I use it because I have a script that does some weird stuff there to specific ebuilds and I don't want it affecting my real overlay. People could also use it to sync up with like the breakmygentoo.net development gnome stuff and able to keep it seperate, and stuff like that. It's a very little used feature.
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Pythonhead · Posted: Mon Aug 04, 2003 6:17 am Post subject:

wizy · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 26 May 2002 Posts: 133

This is great. I do this by hand a lot of the time, thank you.

Pythonhead · Posted: Mon Aug 04, 2003 3:05 pm Post subject: Re: nice

floam · Posted: Wed Aug 06, 2003 5:47 am Post subject:

Thanks! Works almost great now

One more suggestion, since many ebuilds have patches and stuff they need in the /files/ dir, maybe you should copy that over to overlay as well?
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Pythonhead · Posted: Wed Aug 06, 2003 5:55 am Post subject:

floam · Posted: Wed Aug 06, 2003 6:39 am Post subject:

Yeah, you can't really be sure itll always work, but just moving /files/ over and then basically s/oldversion/newversion/'ing all the filenames seems like it would work a good percent of the time.
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Pythonhead · Posted: Sun Aug 17, 2003 6:48 am Post subject:

Bumper 0.4 is ready for testing:

From the ChangeLog:

- Changed delimiter for PORTDIR_OVERLAY from space to colon.
https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10803
https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=26773
- Copy non-digest files from ${FILESDIR}
- More error checking for env vars, warn and exit if no PORTDIR_OVERLAY
- Exits if user isn't root

asph · Posted: Wed Sep 03, 2003 7:18 am Post subject: nice

pythonhead rules!
thanks, nice app

(also for learning python)
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floam · Posted: Sat Oct 25, 2003 3:43 am Post subject:

Pythonhead · Posted: Sat Oct 25, 2003 3:52 am Post subject:

Pythonhead · Posted: Tue Jun 15, 2004 2:14 am Post subject:

Version 0.5 is out and works with newer versions of portage. The code is cleaned up a bit thanks to the use of gentoolkit.py now.

EDIT
0.6 is ready for testing due to major problem in 0.5:

http://dev.gentoo.org/~pythonhead/bumper-0.6

floam · Posted: Sun Jun 27, 2004 11:01 pm Post subject:

I think "0.0.4 - Changed delimiter for PORTDIR_OVERLAY from space to colon." was incorrect. While the portage documentation says a colon should be used, looking in the source shows that it actually uses a space to seperate multiple overlays. Trying to use colons will cause in an error:

JasonRogers · n00b Joined: 21 Jul 2004 Posts: 7

2 problems actually.
First, I had to change line#53

Pythonhead · Posted: Tue Sep 14, 2004 3:51 am Post subject:

Pythonhead · Posted: Tue Sep 14, 2004 3:54 am Post subject:

JasonRogers, sorry, guess I should watch my own threads. I fixed the typo in the latest version:

http://dev.gentoo.org/~pythonhead/bumper/bumper-0.0.8

As for the second problem, I'm not sure what happened, but you may have been caught when they were changing categories? I see resin is in www-servers now, not net-www.