Bug 441814

Summary:	app-portage/eix - Add an option that displays the herds and maintainers of a package.
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Tom Wijsman (TomWij) (RETIRED) <tomwij>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	Martin Väth <martin>
Status:	RESOLVED WONTFIX
Severity:	enhancement	CC:	axs, tomwij
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Tom Wijsman (TomWij) (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2012-11-05 02:11:26 UTC

Bug wranglers (and other people who want to know the herd and a maintainer of a package) currently have to find the metadata.xml file of the package in question. This requires us to type out `cat /usr/portage/CATEGORY/PACKAGE/metadata.xml` or write some workaround script.

However, since eix already reads out that file as far as I am aware of, it might be handy if eix could optionally print out herd and maintainer info as well.

This would make displaying the herd and maintainer something as simple as `eix -M PACKAGE` with clean human output and bug wranglers can then change it to display by default by adjusting their .eixrc.

It might be that I'm missing out on some existing way to do this, so please let me know if that is the case.

Comment 1 Martin Väth 2012-11-05 18:25:14 UTC

(In reply to comment #0)
> However, since eix already reads out that file

No, eix does never read metadata.xml. It gets all information about
the available packages only from portage's metadata which can be
found in /usr/portage/metadata/{,md5-}cache

Comment 2 Tom Wijsman (TomWij) (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2012-11-08 02:28:29 UTC

If anyone comes across this, it appears there's `equery m PACKAGE`. :D