Add other package updaters/modularize

[ngerstle]

Currently, genup syncs and updates the portage tree, overlays, and packages, rebuilds modules, and then explicitly updates perl and python modules using perl-cleaner and python-updater.
Other languages/environments maintain their own updaters- haskell-updater is the one giving rise to this issue.
I'll see if I can get around to throwing together a pull request for adding a call to haskell-updater in the script, but is that the correct approach to take?
Can/should the addition of other package management tools be incorporated in a more coherent fashion?

[sakaki-]

Hi, thanks for the feedback.

If genup were to be extended to call various updaters directly (for languages not in the baseline @System set, such as haskell) then maintaining the package dependency and associated USE flags could quickly become an issue...

An alternative approach might be to support something like an /etc/genup/updaters.d directory - and then have genup (at the appropriate point) run all files (flagged as executable) found therein, failing if any do not return a 0 exit status. There could be also be a command line option to suppress genup checking this directory at all.

Would something like that suffice for your use case? If so, I can look at adding it. Best, sakaki

[sakaki-]

Hi, I've just released genup-1.0.11, which adds an /etc/genup/updaters.d directory. genup will run all executable files (or symlinks to executable files) found at the top level in that directory, at the end of its run (unless the --no-custom-updaters option is passed), and will immediately exit with an error should any of them return a non-zero exit status. The ebuild includes some examples, in /etc/genup/updaters.d/examples; copy or link these into the /etc/genup/updaters.d directory to have them run. The file /etc/genup/updaters.d/examples/22-haskell-updater.sh should hopefully address your use case if copied up.

I'm very open to pull requests for more sophisticated handlers to place in the examples directory; please address any of those to the genup package within sakaki-tools. Thanks!

[ngerstle]

Looks great to me- thanks for the update!

[sakaki-]

Assuming this is working OK now so closing - please re-open if you experience problems.
Best, sakaki