meatoo 0.1.0

Command-line client for Gentoo's Meatoo using XML-RPC.

Contents

• Summary

• Installation

• Requirements

Summary

Meatoo is a website which shows which packages in Gentoo Linux need a version bump. The database queries Freshmeat, The Cheese Shop and other sources for its information. The meatoo command-line client uses an XML-RPC interface.

Usage Examples:

$ meatoo -m python
     List all packages owned by the Python herd needing a version bump.

$ meatoo -l
     List latest 20 packages needing a version bump.

$ meatoo -c dev-python/cherrypy
     Check if an exact category/package needs a version bump.

Installation

You can install the meatoo client with emerge app-portage/meatoo or install from the subversion repository with easy_install meatoo==dev.

As of 0.0.8 the meatoo client is in Gentoo’s Portage tree.

Requirements

Python>=2.3