[Slapt-get-user] slapt-get patches... [0.10.1 addons]

[Brane F. Gračnar]

On Friday 16 January 2009 22:25:34 you wrote:
> Hi Brane,
> I'll always take patches.  That sounds good as long as it is nice and
> clean.  Did you mean to attach it here?

Here are my patches. They apply cleanly to 0.10.1. I've also added nice
generate-slapt-repository script for generation of slapt repositories. It's
based on your script on the website, but it's more robust and it creates
subdir "mountable" slapt-get repositories.

> > - - posibility to add some
> > special variables to SOURCE directive example:
> > SOURCE=http://dist.example.org/repo/${ARCH}/${SLACKWARE_VERSION}
> > ... etc... What do you think? Best regards, Brane
>
> Not sure I follow the use of this.... where is arch and slackware version
> set?  What utility does it have over having just the name filled in within
> the source line?  I'm not sure the added parsing complexity is worth it.

Check out the patches... Why are they useful? I've got a cluster containing
hundreds of machines installed with various slackware variants (slackware,
slamd64 and bluewhite64) and i have only one
repository consisting all packages for all distributions and all archs,
separated in different directories - the problem was that i wasn't able to
use the same slapt-getrc on all those different slackware variants.

This patch enables this behaviour, becouse you can put a line like this in
your slapt-getrc:

SOURCE=http://repo.example.org/mirrors/${DISTRO_NAME_LC}-${DISTRO_VERSION_MAJOR}.
${DISTRO_VERSION_MINOR}/:OFFICIAL

And this would expand to the following:
  http://repo.example.org/mirrors/slackware-12.2/:OFFICIAL      (slackware)
  http://repo.example.org/mirrors/slamd64-12.2/:OFFICIAL        (slamd64)
  http://repo.example.org/mirrors/bluewhite64-12.2/:OFFICIAL    (bluewhite64)

For complete list of variables that can be inserted in slapt-getrc see
Changelog or example slapt-getrc file.

Attached patch also adds support for more apt-get-like usage of slapt-get. All
command targets, that now need to be prefixed by double dash (--) can now be
specified without them. Example:

slapt-get --install <pkgname>    ==    slapt-get install <pkgname>
slapt-get --update               ==    slapt-get update

... and so on.

Please consider the patches for inclusion in the next release of slapt-get;
perhaps more people would find these patches useful.

Best regards, Brane
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