Bug 154852 – eselect sync, eselect mirror ebuild request

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED CANTFIX

[Description Triffid Hunter 2006-11-11 19:50:04 UTC]

sync and mirror eselect modules could be quite handy, especially if eselect is going to become the central place to configure object selections.

I'll start learning to write them now, but I've hardly touched python let alone written eselect modules so if someone beats me to it, that's great :)

[Comment 1 Danny van Dyk (RETIRED) 2007-03-20 03:08:55 UTC]

eselect isn't written in Python.

Mike: shall we take this is on for 1.2.x branch?

[Comment 2 Mike Kelly (RETIRED) 2007-03-20 04:51:10 UTC]

Hmm, I assume he's talking about doing something equivalent to mirrorselect? Does that grab stuff from a text file on www.g.o? Or an xml file? If it's just a plain text list of urls, I think it wouldn't be too hard for us to take it on, but if it's XML... I don't wanna go there w/ bash.

[Comment 3 Markus Ullmann (RETIRED) 2007-09-14 14:19:37 UTC]

seems this request hasn't turned into an ebuild yet. If you want to help with it, it's not that hard to write one: http://devmanual.gentoo.org/quickstart/index.html

If you need further help, feel free to ask on forums or #gentoo-dev-help or #gentoo-sunrise on irc (latter is also useful if you want to maintain the app yourself)

note: we're not turning you down for this request in any way, it's just that we don't have ressources to fix all of them. though if you're willing to help, it would be more than nice to do so, as that is what we definately need :)