Bug 25439 – [etcat][PATCH] reformat output to be script friendly

• Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Stuart Herbert (RETIRED) 2003-07-28 11:00:47 UTC]

Hi Karltk, 
 
Here's the patch demonstrating the type of output that'd be much friendlier for using in other scripts.  
I've patch etcat -f so that it lists every file, one per line - and nothing else. 
 
To give you an example of how I use it, I've also attached the script I use it in.  Maybe you could turn 
this into a bit of python that does the same, and add it to gentoolkit? 
 
Best regards, 
Stu

[Comment 1 Stuart Herbert (RETIRED) 2003-07-28 11:02:18 UTC]

Created attachment 15137 [details, diff]
Patch against etcat

[Comment 2 Stuart Herbert (RETIRED) 2003-07-28 11:03:02 UTC]

Created attachment 15138 [details]
Script that uses the modified etcat

[Comment 3 Stuart Herbert (RETIRED) 2003-07-28 11:03:40 UTC]

Created attachment 15139 [details]
Shell library that genrdepend relies upon

[Comment 4 Stuart Herbert (RETIRED) 2003-10-24 06:19:31 UTC]

Any chance of something happening about this?

Thanks,
Stu

[Comment 5 Alastair Tse (RETIRED) 2003-10-24 07:26:21 UTC]

yeah .. well, i've been a bit busy and karltk has refactored alot of the
code in etcat into a seperate gentoolkit.py module. i had a look at this
and some other etcat bugs but haven't had time to go into depth with it.

but i'll try and look into this as soon as i find some time. i notice that
the latest gentoolkit ebuild still has the old etcat code, so i'm not sure
whether the gentoolkit.py refactoring has been completed or release ready
yet.

i wish the gentoolkit src was available on cvsview, but it is currently in
its own module "gentoolkit" at the moment. i've had a brief look at the patch
and it seems fine. if you would like to commit the patch yourself, please
go ahead.

thanks

[Comment 6 Alastair Tse (RETIRED) 2004-02-04 11:00:36 UTC]

i'm not sure how relevant this is right now .. but i plan to go thru all my etcat bugs in the near future.

[Comment 7 Stuart Herbert (RETIRED) 2004-02-04 15:00:11 UTC]

I've not kept up with the latest changes (as I use a locally-butchered version of etcat daily), but why wouldn't it be relevant any more?

Stu

[Comment 8 Alastair Tse (RETIRED) 2004-02-05 02:41:59 UTC]

when i mean relevant, i mean to say that maybe the one in the newest gentoolkit may have fixed it .. i haven't had time to check

[Comment 9 Marius Mauch (RETIRED) 2005-04-23 07:52:01 UTC]

old and etcat is obsoleted.