[Mageia-dev] announcing magpie

Wed Feb 2 16:33:52 CET 2011

On Wed, 02 Feb 2011, Per Øyvind Karlsen wrote:
+
+> 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..?
+
+Jerome makes his scripts in perl. And mgarepo is in python. So it makes
+sense to distribute it separatly. And some of the features can still be
+implemented later in mgarepo if it appears they are useful to a lot of
+people ...
+
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