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 confirm configuration changes emerge --autounmask-write pypy will just unmask needed packages without asking. In either case, you have to confirm changes with dispatch-conf or similar tools. Happy Gentooing!

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;) DISCLAIMER2: I'm aware this is not the noobs guide, it's more of a reference manual

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 overlay from all working packages on Python Package Index Install Very easy.

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 knows about metadata.xml, ChangeLog and Manifest! Previous week (2nd - 9th August) Task: metadata, echangelog and manifest generation 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 idea how to add files to SCM, will have to find another abstraction tool for that.

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.