pye - "pick your emerge" script

Monkeywrench · Posted: Sun Jul 04, 2004 3:29 am Post subject:

awesome script dr_shadow! I'm currently kind of learning python (my first language, actually) but I'd have no idea how to put this kind of thing together... really cool

The only things I would like to see would be colored output, specifically having the USE flags and package size in different colors, and having the options that the user invokes for pye extended to each emerge. What I mean is, for example, if I run "pye -upvD world" and emerge a few packages, one of the packages might say
" * Processed 347 info files: 1 errors; run with emerge --verbose to view errors."
even if I did pass "-v" to pye. But these are both small issues.

Thanks again for the script

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Pink · Veteran Joined: 24 Jul 2003 Posts: 1062

Great script, discovered it today and for what I've used it for so far it's been great.

Big thanks from me

dr_strange · Posted: Mon Jul 26, 2004 1:16 pm Post subject:

Thanks for the thanks:-)
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zsoltika · Posted: Wed Aug 18, 2004 6:53 pm Post subject:

Some improvemnet suggestion:

Code:

#pye -uUDv system
One moment...
These are the packages that I would merge, in order:
Calculating system dependencies ...done!
Total size of downloads: 0 kB
Enter the numbers of packages you want to emerge or unmerge (in case of prune),comma-separated (you can also specify ranges, like 1,4-8,12 etc.). Alternatively, you can specify packages to be excluded from the list; for this, start your first item with an ! (e.g. !2,4,8). For all packages write 'a'. If you want to quit, press q:

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dr_strange · Posted: Mon Aug 30, 2004 6:52 pm Post subject:

dr_strange · Posted: Thu Sep 23, 2004 10:35 pm Post subject:

Okay, I've decided to unleash version 0.8.4 onto the unsuspecting masses... There are quite a few changes:

- the script now uses the getopt.getopt() function for option parsing
- you have the following options now:
-v or --version: prints version
-h or --help
-s or --sync: makes emerge rsync before anything else
-e or --emergeopts: here you list the opts you would give to emerge: for instance pye -e uDv world would be equivalent with calling emerge -puDv world
-i or --info <package> will print all info about <package> that can be found in /var/db/pkg
-c or --category: will list all packages available in a portage category; e.g. pye -c games-fps will give you the list of all FPS games in portage, to choose from
-p or --prune: lists all installed packages, and the user can choose which nes to unmerge

When the packages are listed, you will have the following possibilities:

dr_strange · Posted: Fri Sep 24, 2004 6:41 am Post subject:

further TODOs:

TODO:

- --purge option to totally unmerge a package
- --sqlite backend
- HUSH variable to oppress emerge output
- beautify output of --info
- provide some alternative output for --info if package is not installed
- colorize package listing if --v in emergeopts
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nouse66 · Apprentice Joined: 09 Jan 2003 Posts: 194

i just grabbed your newest version and it's not running for me:

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dr_strange · Posted: Mon Sep 27, 2004 8:31 am Post subject:

OK, another TODO: make an ebuild that installs pye + creates the conf file and empty mask file for the user

thx guys
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Chickpea · l33t Joined: 03 Jun 2002 Posts: 846 Location: Vancouver WA

I just working with this today and I get a couple of errors. If I use pye alone i get this error message:

asph · Posted: Tue Sep 28, 2004 3:29 pm Post subject:

dr_strange · Posted: Tue Sep 28, 2004 5:59 pm Post subject:

yes, please, for the time being do create the conf file, I will amend the script and post a new version soon
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asph · Posted: Tue Sep 28, 2004 6:26 pm Post subject:

i created the config file, now i get another error:

emerge: there are no ebuilds to satisfy "w".
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Keffin · Posted: Tue Sep 28, 2004 6:37 pm Post subject:

stahlsau · Posted: Wed Sep 29, 2004 6:27 am Post subject:

hi,
just wanna say: nice script, dr_strange, thank you!
I´m using this for a long time embedded into my own update-script, works very well. Recently, i had to do a "emerge -e world", which in former times kept failing at the moment i went to bed. With "pye -e world" and "step-emerge" there are no problems, and i see the other day which packages failed overnight. Very nice!
(and please excuse my language, it´s early in the morning ;-)

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asph · Posted: Wed Sep 29, 2004 7:22 am Post subject:

works fine now, steps i followed:

dr_strange · Posted: Wed Sep 29, 2004 7:41 am Post subject:

Chickpea · l33t Joined: 03 Jun 2002 Posts: 846 Location: Vancouver WA

The only thing that I noticed and dont like with the current version (0.8.4) is that pye -p doesn't work and if you try pye prune, it lists the dups (much like it works now)

According to the help pye outputs pye -p or pye --prune should list all of the packages installed on your system giving you an opportunity to remove packages in the same numbering fashion.

It has worked like that in the past but the current script doesn't do that.

dr_strange · Posted: Sun Oct 03, 2004 9:09 pm Post subject:

Version 0.8.4.1 is up

Two bugfixes:

- pye --prune now works (I hope :-)

)
- the script now creates a default ~/.pye directory and pye.conf and pye.mask files if they do not exist
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hepta_sean · Posted: Tue Nov 09, 2004 11:29 pm Post subject:

dr_strange · Posted: Fri Nov 19, 2004 9:01 am Post subject:

Thank you all for the input and suggestions. My Gentoo PC is currently suffering from a serious malaise, but as soon as it gets repaired I will return to my script.
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theDreamer · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 20 Oct 2003 Posts: 118

pye is a very nice tool - good work.

though, i have one problem with it:

the usage of the tool is manually emerging parts of the world/system list (mostly).
When emerging using -D you fill the world file with system sub packages you dont want manually add but that should be dependent on other packages.

for example:
the output of pye world results in both evolution and evolution-data-server.
when using pye without explicitly saying not emerging evolution-data-server (which is a sub-package of evolution) it will actually add it to the world file.
this is just a small example for expanding the world file to hold unnecessary packages.

This is standing against the logic of using the system dependencies and having minimal world file.
there's another nice tool that talks about what i've tried to explain:
https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=142475

enough talking, i think that a small fix for this is required and also simple:
when emerging the packages you should add --oneshot.

what do you think?
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