New Gentoo Goodies

under Pypy, Gentoo, English

Two very wanted features landed in Gentoo Linux portage tree. PyPy ebuild submitted just 2 months ago! automatic unmask of packages released in portage 2.1.10! Thanks Zac Medico, you rock! --autounmask and --autounmask-write are two new parameters for portage that every user was dreaming of. It will even respect --ask flag! Here is what happens: emerge --ask --autounmask-write pypy will ask you to unmask latest pypy version and to ...

Gentoo, ION 330 and XBMC == perfect HTPC

under Ion, Htpc, Xbmc, Gentoo, English

During last two days I managed to install my HTPC (soon I will add printers and samba to it). There is a lot of useful information around the internet which helped me on the way. I really like to create Gentoo from scratch logs, so I would like to share it with you together with used patches (in my iElectric gentoo repository). DISCLAIMER: This is far from perfect (even the ebuilds), but it works;) ...

GSoC 2010 report for gpypi2 under Gentoo Linux

under Gentoo, Python, Gpypi2, English, Gsoc, Portage

GSoC 2010 is history, but more and more is going on. Let me rephrase a bit what was my project over this summer, what does it provide and what will the future bring. gpypi2 has become quite more than it's primary goal, installation of Python packages has never been easier: Create/echo Gentoo Linux ebuilds from Python Package Index or from Python source (with help of distutils) Install that ebuild with invoking emerge Create ...

GPyPi2 — Google Summer of Code week #11

under Gentoo, Python, Gpypi2, English, Gsoc, Portage

Greetings, following is the weekly update for gpypi2 project. It's main purpose is to generate ebuilds from Python Package Index. Quick links to project info: Repository, issue tracker Hudson CI instance Sphinx documentation generated by hudson on each commit In the last week of implementing features I will add support for Gentoo developers workflow. Done. Implementation is in gpypi2/workflow.py. One issue though: echangelog has no ...

GPyPi2 — Google Summer of Code week #9 and #10

under Gentoo, Python, Gpypi2, English, Gsoc, Portage

Greetings, following is the weekly update for gpypi2 project. It's main purpose is to generate ebuilds from Python Package Index. Quick links to project info: Repository, issue tracker Hudson CI instance Sphinx documentation generated by hudson on each commit GPyPi now supports building ebuilds directly from Python packages. It's tied into distutils: python setup.py sdist_ebuild Configuration is not as verbose as through pypi, but that is a subject to change. ...