Bug 80259 – package specifier field to make wranger's work easier

• Product: Gentoo Infrastructure
• Status: RESOLVED LATER

[Description Robin Johnson 2005-01-31 14:29:24 UTC]

It would be nice to have a field that the user can provide a set of package atoms in, which could then be fed to eshowmaintainer to help wranglers deal with bugs faster.

[Comment 1 Jeffrey Forman (RETIRED) 2005-05-13 04:44:22 UTC]

Robin,

Could you provide some sort of example from another bugzilla to do this? At this point, I'm not going to be adding fields into the bugzilla install, that is a far-down-the-road priority to be honest. I want to get the new install installed first, since it has a ton of security fixes. Then I can handle feature enhancement requests.

-Jeffrey

[Comment 2 Jeffrey Forman (RETIRED) 2005-05-13 12:44:51 UTC]

Robin,

After thinking about this for a bit today...couldnt a hacky php or perl app be written which calls on packages.g.o to grab the package? Rather than integrating something totally into bugzilla.

[Comment 3 Robin Johnson 2005-05-13 23:19:12 UTC]

Jeff:
basically all I'm looking for is a single text field that users can put the name(s) of the involved packages in.
eg a user with a problem between Amanda and Tar would put in
"=app-admin/amanda-2.3* =sys-apps/tar-1.5*"

[Comment 4 Jeffrey Forman (RETIRED) 2005-05-14 15:54:54 UTC]

Ahh, i see what you mean, thats a perfectly valid idea. I will dig deeper into how far I can customize bugzilla, and how much fu will be necessary to add a custom field into the db. But I make no promises on whether it gets into our upgrade initially.

-Jeff

[Comment 5 Jeffrey Forman (RETIRED) 2005-05-27 07:21:33 UTC]

This is just something that's going to be added later.