dogtail-devel [Bug 318225] program is unusable for Gentoo users

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 dogtail | Framework | Ver: CVS HEAD

Brent Smith (smitten) changed:

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------- Additional Comments From Brent Smith (smitten)  2005-10-07 17:27 -------
It seems that importing the portage module and using the following syntax
will get you the distribution specific version number for a package in gentoo.

smitten home /usr/lib/portage/pym $ python
Python 2.4.1 (#1, Jul 13 2005, 18:58:56)
[GCC 3.3.5-20050130 (Gentoo 3.3.5.20050130-r1, ssp-3.3.5.20050130-1, pie-8.7.7.
on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import sys
>>> sys.path.append ('/usr/lib/portage/pym')
>>> sys.path
['', '/usr/lib/portage/pym', '/opt/gnome2/lib/python24.zip',
'/opt/gnome2/lib/python2.4', '/opt/gnome2/lib/python2.4/plat-linux2',
'/opt/gnome2/lib/python2.4/lib-tk', '/opt/gnome2/lib/python2.4/lib-dynload',
'/opt/gnome2/lib/python2.4/site-packages',
'/opt/gnome2/lib/python2.4/site-packages/dbus',
'/opt/gnome2/lib/python2.4/site-packages/gtk-2.0', '/usr/lib/portage/pym']
>>> import portage
>>> portage.db["/"]["vartree"].dbapi.match("mail-client/mozilla-thunderbird")
['mail-client/mozilla-thunderbird-1.0.6-r4']
>>>

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