portage library functions or similar?

cruxnor · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 12 Mar 2004 Posts: 133

Hi,

I have a "status-script" which runs every night and summarizes some states of the server. Now I want to include the new packages which are available through portage. Are there some functions, libraries or anything else where I can include the process of an 'emerge -uDp world' in for e.g. a perl-script, or do I have to write a parser for the output of emerge?
It would be great if there were some functions to load all the new packages in an array

Any suggestions?

-cruxnor

idl · Posted: Sat Dec 25, 2004 11:57 pm Post subject:

It would be possible if you were using Python, as you could import the portage modules and call the correct methods (though you'd have to look at /usr/bin/emerge to figure out the right ones to call). If you insist on using perl, then you can try accomplish the same thing using Inline::Python, or write a parser.