Etcat was mentioned in the Gentoo Weekly Newsletter of 20th January, 2003 (http://www.gentoo.org/news/en/gwn/20030120-newsletter.xml). It's a very useful little tool written in Python that reports information on various packages in portage (what versions are available, what USE flags they use, what size they are, and changelogs, and so on). I've had it in my /usr/local/portage for a while now, and I always sort of assumed it'd be put into portage, since it was mentioned in the GWN, but it wasn't, and I can't find any bugzilla entries for it. Anyway, the lad who wrote it has an ebuild on his website (http://www.liquidx.net/projects/etcat/), which I will attach. He suggests that it go in app-admin/etcat, and I agree. Thanks, Cheers, -Jonathan
Created attachment 8583 [details] The actual ebuild
imo this really shouldnt be added since `emerge` already handles `etcat changes` and `etcat size` ... as for the `etcat uses` stuff, that is a feature that is being worked on basically, why keep adding script after script to do little things ;)
Hrm, fair enough. I kinda liked the way it took wildcards and whatnot, but I do see your point. emerge can assimilate all the other functions in the end, I suppose. Cool, thanks. ;-)
ok, even the 'uses' stuff exists in portage now ;) root@rux0r man # emerge world -upv These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating world dependencies ...done! [ebuild U-] x11-base/xfree-4.3.0 [4.2.99.902] +sse -nls +mmx +truetype -3dnow -3dfx [ebuild N ] x11-libs/xft-2.0.1-r1 [ebuild U ] net-fs/samba-2.2.8_pre1 [2.2.7a] +pam +acl +cups -ldap +ssl +tcpd -oav [ebuild U ] net-analyzer/nmap-3.15_beta2 [3.15_beta1] -gtk -gnome
added with gentoolkit-0.1.20
ha! even i didn't submit a bug for my own hacks .. i think the original ebuild was flawed anyway :)
