[Mageia-dev] announcing magpie

Wed Feb 2 16:01:46 CET 2011

2011/2/1 Jerome Quelin <jquelin at gmail.com>:
+> 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
+Hm, for such seemingly trivial feature additions, wouldn't it make more sense
+to just implement it in repsys..?
+
+Seems like an approach with a bit high potensial of becoming hard to maintain
+and really becoming rrelevant...
+
+My 2 cents at least..
+
+--
+Regards,
+Per Øyviind
+