Created attachment 393426 [details] dio screenshot I wrote dio (device I/O) about 10+ years ago for Solaris. If you search on the web enough there are still some lingering links/references to it and it is still available on sunfreeware.com. I finally decided to port it to Linux and I'd like to make it available to all now on Gentoo. It's like iostat, but with a readable/intuitive terminal interface. I've attached a screenshot. What's next as far as getting this added to the Portage/Gentoo? Thanks, Donald.
1) Explain in a single line what it is. 2) Point to its official homepage. 3) Attach an ebuild if you have one.
ftp://sunsite.rediris.es/mirror/solaris-freeware/SOURCES/dio-1.4.tar.gz maybe?
Yep, that's the one. This version runs on Solaris and used Sun's kstat (kernel statistics) library, so the new version (1.5) uses Linux diskstats. I don't have a website for dio yet, hopefully have this sorted in a couple of days.
Created attachment 393810 [details] dio ebuild file
Got the information you requested now: 1) dio - device I/O analysis tool 2) Home page is https://github.com/donaldmcintosh/dio 3) ebuild file attached or here also https://github.com/donaldmcintosh/dio/blob/master/portage/sys-apps/dio/dio-1.5.ebuild Thanks, and let me know if you need anything else.
Any update on this?
(In reply to Jeroen Roovers from comment #1) > 1) Explain in a single line what it is. > 2) Point to its official homepage. > 3) Attach an ebuild if you have one. Hi Jer... I'm hoping to get dio added to Gentoo but the bug I raised has not progressed. Can you let me know if there is anything I can/need to do to move it on? Thanks, Donald.
1) we generally do not accept live ebuild, you are using git-r3 eclass here.. reason is that a) live ebuild will become broken as time goes b) user have to always fetch source from the original git server, it's not a distributed model since you also are the upstream author, I'd highly recommend you do a version release. 2) possible sys-libs/ncurses also belong to RDEPEND? 3) possible it also works on ARCH=amd64, it's more popular the x86 now 4) possible to improve the build system? or you may simply set S="${WORKDIR}/${P}/src", so can get rid of src_compile() please check http://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Proxy_Maintainers
Created attachment 398904 [details] Out from local ebuild executino
I've updated the ebuild as per your comments and it seems to working fine. I've attached the output when running the ebuild locally on my machine. Please can you try it out and let me know if it works alright for you. Thanks.
New gitub location of tarball is here... https://github.com/donaldmcintosh/dio/archive/1.5.2.tar.gz ... and attaching new ebuild file now.
Created attachment 398906 [details] New ebuild file
+*dio-1.5.2 (16 Mar 2015) + + 16 Mar 2015; Yixun Lan <dlan@gentoo.org> +dio-1.5.2.ebuild, +metadata.xml: + initial ebuild, contributed by Donald McIntosh I‘ve taken the liberty to adjust the ebuild 1) no ">=sys-libs/ncurses-5.10-r2“ 2) testedkeyword on amd64 3) src_compile(), respect CC, see bug 243502 thanks for your contribution!
Thank you - just did an emerge --sync and see it there. Fantastic. :)
