[Mageia-dev] announcing magpie

Tue Feb 1 12:17:48 CET 2011

hi,
+
+i'm happy to report that magpie 1.110320 is now available.
+
+On 11/01/24 16:42 +0100, Jerome Quelin wrote:
+> in my mdv->mageia conversion, i promised to gather the various scripts
+> i'm using to maintain the bulk of perl packages and provide them for
+> everyone to use.
+> 
+> so i'm pleased to announce magpie: MAGeia Perl Integration Easy
+
+magpie now features a new command: checkout (alias co).
+
+it is *not* meant to replace "mgarepo co", it does in fact use mgarepo
+underneath. so what does this command add?
+
+- the possibility to check out in a given directory
+    $ magpie co -d ~/rpm/cauldron perl
+
+- the fact that it will either check out *or* update the local check-out
+  if it already exists:
+    $ magpie co -d ~/rpm/cauldron perl
+    # check-out if 1st run, update otherwise
+
+- finally, the possibility to dump a shell command to execute to change
+  directory in the fresh check-out:
+
+    # add this in your ~/.bashrc
+    function cco() { eval $(magpie co -d ~/rpm/cauldron -q -s $*); }
+    # then, one can do a fresh checkout/update + cd by issuing:
+    $ cco perl
+
+nothing revolutionary, but it saves some keystrokes here and there.
+
+in the future, i intend to make this command to accept a perl module to
+automatically check-out the matching package:
+    $ magpie co Foo::Bar
+
+
+jérôme 
+-- 
+jquelin at gmail.com
+