[Mageia-dev] announcing magpie

Tue Feb 1 15:10:06 CET 2011

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+On Tuesday, February 01, 2011 04:17:48 am Jerome Quelin wrote:
+> 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
+Thanks for doing this. Are you working around the clock, having time for this 
+besides packing all the 1000+ perl packages
+- -- 
+Thomas
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