pye - "pick your emerge" script

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wschlich · Post by **wschlich** » Thu Feb 26, 2004 8:22 am

any plans to have it added to app-portage?

wschlich · Post by **wschlich** » Thu Feb 26, 2004 8:44 am

scharkalvin wrote:Not being a python person (except for 'Monty' that is) I wonder if anybody has figured out a way to get emerge to save important error messages during an emerge -u world before they fly off the top of the screen to be lost forever! If emerge keeps an error log it's new to me.

I have written a script parsing the logfiles created when using PORT_LOGDIR in /etc/make.conf:
http://www.bla.fasel.org/~wschlich/gent ... logmsgs.sh

frekiR · Post by **frekiR** » Thu Feb 26, 2004 9:36 am

i've been using it for some time nowm it's great

dr_strange · Post by **dr_strange** » Thu Feb 26, 2004 11:26 am

wschlich wrote:any plans to have it added to app-portage?

I have not considered this question yet.

wschlich · Post by **wschlich** » Thu Feb 26, 2004 5:51 pm

then please do :-)

dr_strange · Post by **dr_strange** » Tue Mar 02, 2004 12:46 pm

I have uploaded a new version. I have given it the (rather arbitrary) version number 0.8.

New features:

- when prompted for the package numbers, you can simply enter 'a' or 'all', if you want all packages in the list

- if you call the script with rsync/sync as the first argument, pye will perform syncing first, before giving you the list of packages (e.g. pye rsync -U system)

neenee · Post by **neenee** » Tue Mar 02, 2004 12:51 pm

nice

frekiR · Post by **frekiR** » Tue Mar 02, 2004 1:51 pm

dr_strange wrote:I have uploaded a new version. I have given it the (rather arbitrary) version number 0.8.

New features:

- when prompted for the package numbers, you can simply enter 'a' or 'all', if you want all packages in the list

- if you call the script with rsync/sync as the first argument, pye will perform syncing first, before giving you the list of packages (e.g. pye rsync -U system)

Great, not that it was hard typing all the numbers, just annoying

(Swedes: dagens i-landsproblem)

swimmer · Post by **swimmer** » Tue Mar 02, 2004 2:26 pm

dr_strange wrote:I have uploaded a new version. I have given it the (rather arbitrary) version number 0.8.

New features:

- when prompted for the package numbers, you can simply enter 'a' or 'all', if you want all packages in the list

- if you call the script with rsync/sync as the first argument, pye will perform syncing first, before giving you the list of packages (e.g. pye rsync -U system)

Normally I don't sing the song of greatness so often but this tool is extraordinary handy!!!

You *really* should consider to suggest it for implementation in the gentoolkit

greetz
Stefan

swimmer · Post by **swimmer** » Tue Mar 02, 2004 2:30 pm

And I forgot the most important thing:

Thank you very much!!!

Stefan

dr_strange · Post by **dr_strange** » Tue Mar 02, 2004 2:55 pm

http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=43479

pem725 · Post by **pem725** » Thu Mar 04, 2004 7:26 am

dr_strange...pye is awesome! Thanks for the great script. Each KDE release was killing me but now I'm in heaven with pye.

dr_strange · Post by **dr_strange** » Thu Mar 04, 2004 8:37 am

Thanks for the kind words from everybody. I am glad that you find the script to be useful.

reyneke · Post by **reyneke** » Fri Mar 05, 2004 7:19 pm

Hey!
Thx for the quit-option and all the other nice features you added.
that script is great. The other ones on your HP, too!
Nice work.

Greetz,
reyneke.

3.1415 · Post by **3.1415** » Fri Mar 05, 2004 10:32 pm

waow ! pye is really extraordinary thx very much dr_strange !

calhoun · Post by **calhoun** » Sat Mar 06, 2004 7:38 pm

dr_strange · Post by **dr_strange** » Mon Mar 08, 2004 6:39 pm

Minor update, version 0.8.1. The script now works with the search function of emerge; that is, e.g. pye -s gkrellm will give a numbered list of packages matching the keyword 'gkrellm' and you can install any of them right away.

rockfly · Post by **rockfly** » Mon Mar 08, 2004 7:02 pm

it should be included with gentoolkit if you ask me

dh3rm3 · Post by **dh3rm3** » Thu Mar 11, 2004 11:05 pm

This is a great and very useful script dr_strange ... ! thx for it ...
My just 2 cents ...
Why not adding the -v option to

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('emerge -p %s' % args)

as

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('emerge -pv %s' % args)

so that the output gives the Use flags of each ebuild ...
And It would just be great that the output of USE flags, activated and non activated, get a different color ...
Anyway.. great script

dr_strange · Post by **dr_strange** » Fri Mar 12, 2004 7:37 am

Well, you can always add -v yourself, like pye -vD world; the -p is hardwired only for precaution, so that the script does not begin to emerge world right away, but I wanted to leave all the other options up to the user.

I will think about the colorized output, and I have another feature in mind I will probably implement soon.

dr_strange · Post by **dr_strange** » Fri Mar 12, 2004 7:39 am

On the other hand, I've never tried for instance how the -v option would behave when used together with, say, the -s option.

Aonoa · Post by **Aonoa** » Fri Mar 12, 2004 7:23 pm

I just have to say that this script rocks

I have been wanting something like this for a while... without the skills or the time to make it myself. Great work!

dr_strange · Post by **dr_strange** » Fri Mar 12, 2004 9:54 pm

Version 0.8.2 up.

I've written in a new functionality; I do not know how useful people will find it, but there it is: if one says pye prune, the script will list all installed packages as found in /var/db/pkg (the portage vartree) numbered, and you can choose the ones you want to unmerge. Personally I find it useful to look through the packages from time to time and remove those I haven't ever really used.
CAVEAT and TODO: this doesn't yet check for possible dependencies unmerged.

pem725 · Post by **pem725** » Fri Mar 12, 2004 11:10 pm

dr_strange

As I said before, this is one of the best gentoo tools I use. Thanks greatly. I ran into a problem that I am not sure if others see frequently but I see it now more frequently than I like. Here is what happens when I use

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pye world

The results tell me that there was not enough information to finish the emerge. Specifically, app-emacs and app-xemacs both have the same package ecb and pye does not permit the prefix. Can we specify the prefix with pye? If not, would you tolerate a request that might limit what gets emerged by automatically pre-pending the appropriate pre-fix if I ask pye to do so? In other words, if I use

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pye app-emacs/ecb

the result will be an emerged ecb from the app-emacs directory in portage.

Thanks again and shine on you crazy diamond.

dr_strange · Post by **dr_strange** » Sat Mar 13, 2004 9:01 am

Possibly yes, but what is the benefit of using pye on a single package?
OTOH I've also seen packages that for some reason appear in two categories and this halts pye and one has to emerge the correct package manually.

I'll think about this prob.

pye - "pick your emerge" script

Re: emerge error log?

one feature request...he says meekly