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tkdack
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 Posted: Sat Nov 16, 2002 5:07 am Post subject: Portage HTTP Front End |
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Just an idea and a small bit of code at the moment.
I'm mainly looking for feedback from people and if they think that this is a good idea or not.
For the good oil visit: http://linux.tkdack.com/node.php?title=Portage%20HTTP%20Front%20End
It's only a small script (~ 6K) and installation is as easy as saving it to your home directory.
The script only reads from the system at the moment (ie: it performs no emerges or writes).
Try it and let me know what you think.
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dreamer3
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| Posted: Sat Nov 16, 2002 7:21 am Post subject: |
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Ok, this is cool. I've been thinking about a web frontend for portage for some time, but in PHP (it's what I know). Obviously if python has a build in web server class and you can do this kind of stuff, that would be the most desireable and compatible (from an interfacing standpoint) solution.
Too bad I don't know python 
What I had in mind would (optionally?) use mysql to store portage data making ANY query you can imagine instantaneous compared to what we're used to now... that would have been the funnest part of the project I was envisioning... |
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rac
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| Posted: Sat Nov 16, 2002 7:37 am Post subject: |
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I hope that the project remains (at least optionally) read-only. Web-enabled services that operate as root (which would be required to change things) really bother me.
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tkdack
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| rac wrote: | | I hope that the project remains (at least optionally) read-only. Web-enabled services that operate as root (which would be required to change things) really bother me. |
I can't agree more. As I said, I'm just looking to see if there is any interest in this sort of thing.
I'm no web services or python guru so I'd have to do some major learning to implement it properly as a root service (authentication and all that sort of stuff). Who knows, python may have classes for this too  I've only just started to learn about it, so far it's impressed me.
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