Configuration Tool

[xlnagla]

I'm not sure if you guys are still watching this thread, but I've got drakconf kinda-ish working in Sabayon, if you're interested.

~xlnagla

[sjieke]

I'm still watching

We already started from scratch. I don't know the opinions of the other developpers, but I think we will continue working on that...
If you haven't read it previously, it is on sourceforge now: Sabayon Control Center. If you browse the svn you will find a design document under trunk/doc. The first code for the base framework is under trunk/src/ModuleManager. If your interested you can have a look. If you are a developper and want to join, let it know and we will add you...

I do wanna know how much and what you needed to modify to get drakconf to work. I thought that drakeconf was some kind of app that just starts different smaller configuration tools (our tool will support standalone and embedded modules)? So do you need to modify all those tools too?

[Fitzcarraldo]

I'm not sure if you guys are still watching this thread, but I've got drakconf kinda-ish working in Sabayon, if you're interested.

~xlnagla

I am very much interested, as I like drakconf and think it would be useful for newcomers to SL.

[xlnagla]

I would indeed love to step up to help with the coding

starting from scratch is probably the best method, as it'll be way easier to maintain and to update without having to re-port stuff, so as long as everyone's for it that's the way to go. Drakconf is a collection of many perl modules, and uses them to deal with configurations - thankfully to actually edit the configuration files themselves. Most of what was needed to get Drakconf up can be summarized as port the mandriva perl libraries - blessedly simple, as most of the libraries aren't compiled and those that are don't complain as long as you've got ocaml installed (there's some ocaml). It launches, and if I edit some cross-distro compliant configs with it it does something, which is very promising. Of course it's almost without function for most of the configs, but at least it's a start. The tools themselves don't complain as long as you've got their libraries set, they just won't find configs sometimes. Shouldn't be too hard to fix.

~xlnagla

[xlnagla]

only hangup:

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package read_t;

use lib '../..';
use MDK::Common;

sub read_t {
    my ($file) = @_;

    my @tests;
    my ($column_width, $line_number, @lines, @logs);
    foreach (cat_($file), "\n") {
        if (/^$/) {
            push @tests, { line_number => $line_number, lines => [ @lines ], log                                                                            s => [ @logs ] } if @lines;
            @lines = @logs = ();
        } else {
            $column_width ||= length(first(/(.{20}\s+)/));
            my ($line, $log) = $column_width > 25 && /(.{$column_width})(.*)/ ?                                                                             (chomp_($1) . "\n", $2) : ($_, '');
            $line =~ s/[ \t]*$//;
            push @lines, $line;
            push @logs, $log;
        }
        $line_number++;
    }
    @tests;
}

1;


Undefined subroutine &read_t::cat_ called at test/read_t.pm line 11.

I don't see how that's undefined....

~xlnagla

[Fitzcarraldo]

It's grumbling about the line:

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foreach (cat_($file), "\n") {

isn't it? What does cat_($file) resolve to?

[xlnagla]

it's a cat function, I've used it before with common.pm and it's worked fine. It's a loop that just concatinates all the members of an array, one entry per line.

~xlnagla

[sjieke]

I have no experience with perl, so I won't be able to help...

If you want to join the development of the "Sabayon Control Center", all we need is your sourceforge username... You can post it here or PM me.

[xlnagla]

same as always, xlnagla

[sjieke]

same as always, xlnagla

Ok, I've added you to the developpers...