[Mageia-dev] announcing magpie

[Thomas Spuhler]

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On Tuesday, February 01, 2011 04:17:48 am Jerome Quelin wrote:
> 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
> 
> 
> jérôme
Thanks for doing this. Are you working around the clock, having time for this 
besides packing all the 1000+ perl packages
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Thomas
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