gentoo packages that need lovin’

I mentioned not too long ago that I was working on getting portage details crammed into postgresql, and here is the end result.

GPNL is meant to be a QA tool for treecleaners to use, making it easier to find packages and ebuilds that … well, need some lovin.

Though it’s primarily intended for quality assurance, I’ve written the frontend to be hopefully pretty generic so anyone can browse the portage tree and just see some interesting statistics all around. There’s still a lot more to be done on the website, but I think it’s to a point right now where it’s at least ready for some public consumption.

One thing I’m excited about is setting up the advanced search page, where you’ll be able to run all kinds of funky queries. I’m going to be adding some more QA checks as well, once I get some time. Getting this much done though was quite a lot of work though, and I’m probably going to take a break and focus more on other things for a while. However, if anyone has some reasonable feature requests, I’m all ears.

Oh, also the source code for the database schema and the import scripts is available online. I’ll setup SVN access and some documentation on the db layout sometime soon, not to mention how to get it working (short howto: emerge php, pkgcore, postgresql and portage-utils).

Also, a huge shout out to marienz and ferringb who put together pkgcore and my little python scripts that made importing the data incredibly simple. Thanks, guys. 🙂

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