New C++ Portage

[Team_Beast]

I have written a new version of parts of Portage to go on top of the current version of Portage. I wrote this project as part of my university degree and it works well. I have released it under the GPL if anyone else wants to use it and I am continuing development all the time.

This project has 2 parts at the moment. A library part and a bundled user interface. I'm not too interested with the user interface as long as it does what I want it to do. The library is the main part of the project and is what I shall be developing. It sits on top of Portage, written in C++ and using Berkeley DB as its database back-end. The first release is extremeley fast, especially when compared to Portage ( on my machine ) and the library itself is flexible enough to hopefully give rise to many interfaces, all providing different features depending on what people want.

At the moment the front end has a working depclean ( only takes notice of what is in the world file, pays no attention to system packages as the interface does not implement this ), redundant source finder, reverse dependency checker etc. Please feel free to download and test this, it is reasonably safe and I have been using it for 2 months on my main machine with no problems. However, as with any new package manager, its always a good idea to check with a -p before actually comitting any changes. Let me know of your experiences and any feature requests.

The project can be found at http://sourceforge.net/projects/portage-sql/ and the project is the sportage-0.9.3 subproject.

Thanks

[f00bar]

This thing is REALLY fast!

If you do a lot of searching (emerge -s or especially emerge -S) then this is the thing for you.

Even for normal install operations it is fast, also the depclean and reverse dependancy removal is awesome. Definitely worth checking out for all you speed freaks out there!

[Maedhros]

Moved from Portage & Programming to Unsupported Software.

[wing]

I guess boost is required to compile this, as it complained about boost headers not being availible.

[Team_Beast]

Yeah, sorry, I forgot to mention the dependencies . The dependencies are only DB-4.1 and boost. I think the boost library license will allow me to bundle the bits I want with the project, so maybe I should do that today and have a new release. I only require the regular expression section of boost, so maybe it would be a good idea.

[pussi]

I made an ebuild for this.

It won't work unless you disable sandbox from FEATURES, so you'll need to emerge it with:

[baeksu]

[pussi]

[dr_strange]

segfaults here as well; gcc 3.3.4
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[Team_Beast]

What architecture are you running? I don't use much in the way of dynamic memory so this should be easy to fix. What command produces the segfault? What output do you get before the segfault? Thanks for the input.

[thubble]

Segfaults here too, GCC 3.4.3-20050110. Here's the end of the output for 'strace ./sportage -R':

[Team_Beast]

Could this be a 64-bit problem? I have only tested the code on x86. Its probably a sizeof() problem somewhere. If anyone could help with this it would be appreciated.

[thubble]

I think I found the problem. You assume that each bracket is a separate word, i.e. separated by spaces. However, this isn't the case in 'x11-misc/adesklets-0.4.8'. It has the following DEPEND line:

[Team_Beast]

The parser used within this project parses the metadata stored in /usr/portage/metadata/cache/, rather than the ebuilds themselves and so this should not cause the parser a problem. To me this still seems like a AMD64 problem, what architecture are you using? I dont get this error on my 32-bit system. Thanks a lot for trying to help me solve this issue.

[thubble]

GAAAAHHH, I accidentally downloaded the old version!!! I'm an idiot

[Team_Beast]

[Cagnulein]

[Team_Beast]

If you check inside the /usr/local/lib directory, there should be libsportage.so. If its not there, then run make install again as root and it should move it there. If that fails, then you should be able to move it by hand to the correct directory.

If however libsportage.so is in /usr/local/lib then check /etc/ld.so.conf and check that /usr/local/lib is in there. I think it is by default? If its not I think you have to change /etc/env.d/00basic and run env-update.

[Cagnulein]

env-update solves the problem

my brain is on fire, sorry for my stupid problem

[Lepaca Kliffoth]

Please make a manpage ^^
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[Team_Beast]

There is a new version of sportage ( 0.9.4 ) that has a few small bugfixes and a better README file. There is also now a semerge website that hopefully explains how to use the program well ( http://portage-sql.sourceforge.net/semerge.html ).

[appro]

Is there a reason why you aren't using automake/autoconf, scons or something similar?
It would solve the sandbox-violations and make the project easier to maintain (imho).
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[dr_strange]

Weird. I get an "Interrupted" error message when I run semerge (I've successfully emerged the 0.9.4 version). Here is my emerge info:

[Team_Beast]

[dr_strange]

It's either semerge -R or semerge --help. I will do a strace on it when I get home in the evening.
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