moduledb in Paludis #2

This is only a short follow-up to my previous post.
Support of dynamic configuration files has been implemented a few days ago and for a start I have made two simple dynamic sets:

kernel-modules-ver.bash (set of kernel-modules with exact versions):

#!/bin/bash

sed -e 's/.*:/* =/' /var/lib/module-rebuild/moduledb

kernel-modules.bash (set of kernel-modules - unversioned):

#!/bin/bash

shopt -s extglob

while read PKG; do
    PKG=${PKG##*:}
    PKG=${PKG%%-scm*([[:digit:]])}
    PKG=${PKG%%-[[:digit:]]*([^-]|-[^[:digit:]])}
    echo "* ${PKG}"
done < /var/lib/module-rebuild/moduledb

And that's really only the beginning...

moduledb in Paludis

Update: Check this for the current solution.

With portage I was quite often using module-rebuild, more or less after every kernel update and thus I thought it would be nice to make something similar for Paludis, especially as it seemed really simple with Paludis' Hooks and Sets.

So I made two simple hooks:

• ${paludis_confdir}/hooks/ebuild_postinst_post/modules_set_add.bash
• ${paludis_confdir}/hooks/ebuild_postrm_post/modules_set_rm.bash

And a simple one-liner to import entries from the moduledb:

sed -e 's/.*:/* =/' /var/lib/module-rebuild/moduledb > ${PALUDIS_CONFDIR}/sets/modules.conf

But then I realized that it's not so perfect:

• Won't work when using Environment != Paludis ( ${PALUDIS_CONFDIR} won't be reliable then )
• To actually rebuild the modules one has to use: paludis --dl-reinstall always --dl-deps-default discard -i modules and hope that the deps are satisfied :]
• Doubles the work of the linux-mod.eclass

So I decided to talk with Ciaran about the above issues. Yet while we were talking he implemented a new paludis option (--dl-reinstall-targets auto|always|never), which affects the way paludis treats targets. Up till now the default "auto" was always used(="never" for sets and "always" for ordinary packages). When it is released the module rebuild will be simply done with:

paludis --dl-reinstall-targets always -i modules and there won't be any risk of missing deps.

Going further ciaran thought about allowing bash scripts in sets/, in short paludis runs a foo.bash script from sets/ and its output is interpreted as foo set. The moment it is implemented (probably today) and released we can forget about the two hooks above and make a modules.bash similar to the import one-liner.

So don't forget to update Paludis when it's out ;]

My brand new blog and Google Summer of Code

Welcome to my brand new blog!

Thanks to seredipity setting it up was quite easy :] I've been thinking about making one for quite some time and today I have eventually decided to do so. Why today? Well, GSoC!
My proposal was accepted as one of the Gentoo projects. In short, my task is to make python bindings for Paludis, the Other Package Mangler for Gentoo. If you want more details, check out my application and, if you are even more desperate, code, which I have already written. Also ciaran was nice enough to write a few words about it, but don't forget to ignore the rubbish about Python :]
So... I am planing to blog about progress of my project, some Gentoo stuff, and... time will tell.

P.S. 1) My name is Piotr Jaroszyński (hence the domain), I live in Warsaw and am first year Computer Science student at Warsaw University.
P.S. 2) I hope my pathetic 256 kbit/s upload will manage ;]