Need feedback on portage app: Portal

Pythonhead · Last edited by Pythonhead on Wed Sep 29, 2004 7:35 pm; edited 5 times in total

Portal (was wxPicks)

I started a new portage utility with the following features:

Select packages to emerge from list of 'emerge world' or 'emerge -uD system' etc. output
Change USE flags for individual package and add to /etc/portage/package.use

Add individual packages to:
/etc/portage/package.keywords
/etc/portage/package.unmask
/etc/portage/package.mask
/etc/portage/package.provided
emerge world/system will continue if an individual package fails to emerge (optional)
Individual log files so you can see important messages or errors on failed emerges

Screenshots:
http://portal.sf.net/portal.png
http://portal.sf.net/portal2.png
http://portal.sf.net/portal3.png
http://portal.sf.net/portal4.png

Homepage/Download ebuild:
http://portal.sf.net/

asph · Posted: Mon Sep 20, 2004 9:05 pm Post subject:

maybe you could add the functionality to inject packages, a "tree" like view or change/edit cflags for each package you select to emerge..

also it would be great to diference even more the N and U ebuilds, maybe with different colors or something.

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Pythonhead · Posted: Mon Sep 20, 2004 9:14 pm Post subject:

asph · Posted: Tue Sep 21, 2004 7:46 am Post subject:

i think i would use the cursed based interface, it would be great to be able to install only the cursed based wxPicks (trough USE's), or the hole set so that you can keep the depends low if you don't need/want the X interface.

good job with Portal, now emerge world is for chumps

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Saa · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 03 Jul 2004 Posts: 138

I like the X interface myself. Its nice and clean and gives what you need. There seems to be a following behind the ion and ratpoison wm's , and I'm sure those followers would like an ncurses interface.

Pythonhead · Posted: Wed Sep 29, 2004 7:26 pm Post subject:

Portal is ready for testing, feedback and bug reports.

Ebuild available: http://portal.sf.net/

Mystilleef · Guru Joined: 27 Apr 2003 Posts: 561 Location: Earth

Is there a CLI version? I'm not big on GUIs for system administration, especially not on my servers.
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Pythonhead · Posted: Thu Sep 30, 2004 5:58 pm Post subject:

zojas · Posted: Thu Sep 30, 2004 10:17 pm Post subject:

well, an ncurses interface would allow you to run it inside of screen, detach, reattach later.

this looks really cool! good work!
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cbolin · Posted: Fri Oct 01, 2004 5:08 pm Post subject:

I really like portal. I even like the gui interface...

well done!

denstark · l33t Joined: 02 Jun 2003 Posts: 654 Location: sd.ca.us

Damn nice... ill let you know if i encounter any bugs.. but none as of yet
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malloc · l33t Joined: 19 Sep 2003 Posts: 762

I might be burnt alive here

but none the less i'll sugest a "dselect" (debian apt ncurses gui) type gui. Better coded of course.
Dselect is funcional and has some nice options, that makes me like it a lot. Anyways my 2 cents
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ag_x · Posted: Fri Oct 01, 2004 8:57 pm Post subject:

Wow,this is excellent!I m waiting the CLI version.

zaiyon · Posted: Sun Oct 24, 2004 3:38 am Post subject:

looks damn interesting, even if I don't like guis, but I have a problem making a digest of the ebuild (I hope it's not too n00b

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Pythonhead · Posted: Sun Oct 24, 2004 3:56 am Post subject:

Do you have PORTDIR_OVERLAY='/usr/local/portage' in /etc/make.conf?

I'm lagging behind on the curses version. I'm looking a for a good curses toolkit in python.

zaiyon · Posted: Sun Oct 24, 2004 1:07 pm Post subject:

strange, I used to.... but okay, now I added it again and the digest && emerge works, I probably specified it somewhere else before that, thx

ok, for portal: damn handy, I'll tell you if I can find any bugs, but none yet
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Deranger · Veteran Joined: 26 Aug 2004 Posts: 1215

Portal looks promising. I've never used GUI front-end for Portage but maybe I'll give it a try. Especially it annoys when some very important info scroll too fast :roll:

fabs_uk · Posted: Mon Oct 25, 2004 2:27 pm Post subject:

very cool, totally impressed.
seems to hang ramndomly on a couple of things, not sure what's going on, is there a --debug option that will hit portal and not just get passed through to emerge?
one package it does it on is (ironically) python-2.3.4 (from 2.3.3)
It just sits there not doing anything:

Cintra · Advocate Joined: 03 Apr 2004 Posts: 2111 Location: Norway

Very nice

and thanks for the straightforward installation instructions..

however, I don't seem to be able to do an emerge sync without pretend getting in the way..?

regards
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Pythonhead · Posted: Tue Oct 26, 2004 4:41 am Post subject:

Pythonhead · Posted: Tue Oct 26, 2004 4:45 am Post subject:

Pythonhead · Posted: Tue Oct 26, 2004 6:41 am Post subject:

Ok, 0.0.9 is out and should fix the problem with it haning on some downloads.

http://portal.sourceforge.net/portal-0.0.9.ebuild

I also added a "View installed packages that depend on this package" option.

zaiyon · Posted: Tue Oct 26, 2004 6:42 pm Post subject:

0.0.9 works great for me.

Besides: do I miss something or is there no special, included portage search function?

if not, why not builtin one? That's one thing I've been teribly missing while I used portal.
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Pythonhead · Posted: Tue Oct 26, 2004 11:01 pm Post subject:

zaiyon · Posted: Wed Oct 27, 2004 11:53 am Post subject:

after all: yes

but just some kind of search field and a fitting button for it.. just thought it would fit portal nice if you could just search and directly emerge or prevent or whatever-you-want the results.
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