babtools_gentoo 0.4.0

Some tools for the casual Gentoo user and ebuild dabbler.

Info and API: http://rakjar.de/babtools_gentoo/apidocs/

babtools_gentoo: Some tools for working with Gentoo.

Usage:

• babtools_gentoo.py cmd [OPTIONS]

  for default usage, or

• babtools_gentoo.py –help

  for getting help

Avaible commands:

• ebuild_to_local CP

  CP (cathegory/package) in the simple form dev-lang/python or similar. CPVs (cathegory/package-version) aren’t supported, yet.

• ebuild_download_to_local CP URL

  Download an ebuild from bugs.gentoo.org to the local portage tree.

• emerge_from_pypi PACKAGE

  Create an ebuild from a project in PyPI, put it into package.keywords and install it. Honors package.keywords directories. It only puts the directly named PACKAGE into package.keywords as dev-python/PACKAGE but doesn’t put the dependencies into package.keywords.

Examples:

• sudo babtools_gentoo.py ebuild_to_local dev-lang/python

  copy dev-lang/python into the local overlay

• sudo babtools_gentoo.py ebuild_download_to_local games-rpg/vegastrike http://bugs.gentoo.org/attachment.cgi?id=151789

  Download the ebuild for games-rpg/vegastrike from bugs.gentoo.org and digest it.

• sudo babtools_gentoo.py emerge_from_pypi magma

  Create an ebuild for “magma” from the PyPI and emerge it.

Source URL (Mercurial): U{http://freehg.org/u/ArneBab/babtools_gentoo/}

PyPI URL: U{http://pypi.python.org/pypi/babtools_gentoo}