[Mageia-dev] announcing magpie

[Per Øyvind Karlsen]

2011/2/1 Jerome Quelin <jquelin at gmail.com>:
> hi,
>
> i'm happy to report that magpie 1.110320 is now available.
>
> On 11/01/24 16:42 +0100, Jerome Quelin wrote:
>> in my mdv->mageia conversion, i promised to gather the various scripts
>> i'm using to maintain the bulk of perl packages and provide them for
>> everyone to use.
>>
>> so i'm pleased to announce magpie: MAGeia Perl Integration Easy
>
> magpie now features a new command: checkout (alias co).
>
> it is *not* meant to replace "mgarepo co", it does in fact use mgarepo
> underneath. so what does this command add?
>
> - the possibility to check out in a given directory
>    $ magpie co -d ~/rpm/cauldron perl
>
> - the fact that it will either check out *or* update the local check-out
>  if it already exists:
>    $ magpie co -d ~/rpm/cauldron perl
>    # check-out if 1st run, update otherwise
>
> - finally, the possibility to dump a shell command to execute to change
>  directory in the fresh check-out:
>
>    # add this in your ~/.bashrc
>    function cco() { eval $(magpie co -d ~/rpm/cauldron -q -s $*); }
>    # then, one can do a fresh checkout/update + cd by issuing:
>    $ cco perl
>
> nothing revolutionary, but it saves some keystrokes here and there.
>
> in the future, i intend to make this command to accept a perl module to
> automatically check-out the matching package:
>    $ magpie co Foo::Bar
Hm, for such seemingly trivial feature additions, wouldn't it make more sense
to just implement it in repsys..?

Seems like an approach with a bit high potensial of becoming hard to maintain
and really becoming rrelevant...

My 2 cents at least..

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Regards,
Per Øyviind