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PostPosted: Sat Nov 24, 2007 6:49 am    Post subject: ANN: emasked Reply with quote

I wrote a small python script (and Haskell source + binary) for seaching /usr/portage/profiles/package.mask for data about masked packages. It shows the masked package(s), who masked them, and the reason for the mask.

Example output of "emasked ghc":

Code:
Package(s):
  dev-lang/ghc-bin

Masked by:
  Duncan Coutts <dcoutts@gentoo.otg> (05 Nov 2007)

Reason:
  dev-lang/ghc-bin is going away, use dev-lang/ghc instead.
  You can USE=binary with dev-lang/ghc to get the effect of ghc-bin.


The usage is: "emasked ATOM" where ATOM is a POSIX regex matching some porition of the package atom.

There may already be a utility like this, I didn't check too much; if there is, this isn't meant to be "better" or anything. I just had a need and thought others might as well.

Get it here: http://monkeesage.prohosts.org/emasked

Regards,
Jordan
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PostPosted: Sat Nov 24, 2007 8:57 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

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PostPosted: Sat Jan 12, 2008 4:17 pm    Post subject: Re: ANN: emasked Reply with quote

MonkeeSage wrote:
I wrote a small python script (and Haskell source + binary) for seaching /usr/portage/profiles/package.mask for data about masked packages. It shows the masked package(s), who masked them, and the reason for the mask.

Example output of "emasked ghc":

Code:
Package(s):
  dev-lang/ghc-bin

Masked by:
  Duncan Coutts <dcoutts@gentoo.otg> (05 Nov 2007)

Reason:
  dev-lang/ghc-bin is going away, use dev-lang/ghc instead.
  You can USE=binary with dev-lang/ghc to get the effect of ghc-bin.


The usage is: "emasked ATOM" where ATOM is a POSIX regex matching some porition of the package atom.

There may already be a utility like this, I didn't check too much; if there is, this isn't meant to be "better" or anything. I just had a need and thought others might as well.

Get it here: http://monkeesage.prohosts.org/emasked

Regards,
Jordan


Bump...I can't be the only one who finds this functionality useful?!
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PostPosted: Sun Jan 13, 2008 6:40 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

One of the reasons might be that the following is a viable approximation of the above script :P
Code:
grep -B 10 <package-name> /usr/portage/profiles/package.mask

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PostPosted: Sun Jan 13, 2008 11:48 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

ppurka wrote:
One of the reasons might be that the following is a viable approximation of the above script :P
Code:
grep -B 10 <package-name> /usr/portage/profiles/package.mask

Well...yeah. :P But mine gives color output and actually groks sections rather than guessing at what line-count would be useful (as well as searching only for package atoms and not matching in the comment section). But yeah, I used something like your example prior to writing this, I just thought somebody (besides me, heh) might find it useful. Guess not. ;)

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PostPosted: Wed Jan 16, 2008 1:33 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Looks nice... now, if only you could write an ebuild for it (or at the very least a .cabal file... :wink: )...
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