ebookmerge

So long time without post :)

Last night i uploaded a new version(0.9) of ebookmerge to portage. Ebookmerge is a tool for manage ebooks in gentoo per user. All app-doc/ebooks-* has been masked pending removal.
With ebookmerge you can:

Retrieve an update listdirectly from the lidn web:

bass@bebop ~ $ ebookmerge.sh -r
* Dowloading list from http://lidn.sf.net…
* Dowloaded. Use -l for a list.
bass@bebop ~ $

You can search:

bass@bebop ~ $ ebookmerge.sh -s sed
* Results for sed :
sed-3.02.tgz
bass@bebop ~ $

Show the list of aviable and installed ebooks:

bass@bebop ~ $ ebookmerge.sh -l

Download an ebook to current directory:

bass@bebop ~ $ ebookmerge.sh -d sed-3.02
* Dowloading eBook sed-3.02 in /home/bass…
* Dowloaded.
bass@bebop ~ $

Emerge the ebook. It download the ebook and install it in DevHelp repository (you need devhelp >=0.10)

bass@bebop ~ $ ebookmerge.sh -e textutils-2.0.tgz
* Dowloading eBook in /tmp/tmp.bo2pCv…
* Dowloaded.
* Preparing to install /tmp/tmp.bo2pCv/textutils-2.0.tgz in DevHelp…
* unpacking /tmp/tmp.bo2pCv/textutils-2.0.tgz…
* /tmp/tmp.bo2pCv/textutils-2.0.tgz installed in DevHelp :-)
bass@bebop ~ $

Uninstall an ebook:

bass@bebop ~ $ ebookmerge.sh -u sed-3.02
* sed-3.02 will be deleted in 5 seconds….
* sed-3.02 was deleted.
bass@bebop ~ $

And of course the help:

bass@bebop ~ $ ebookmerge.sh -h
eBook downloader for Gentoo Linux [ v 0.9 ]
by bass@gentoo.org* Usage: ebookmerge.sh options (-hlrid)-l : list aviable eBooks and installed eBooks.
-r : retrieve/refresh eBooks list.
-d NAME : download eBook.
-i NAME : install eBook previously dowloaded to devhelp.
-u NAME : uninstall eBook. Don’t use confirmation.
-e NAME : emerge an eBook.
-s EXPR : search eBook.
-c : disable color.
-h : show this help.

* To download and insatll an Ebook :
* ebookmerge.sh -e bashref-2.05a.tgz or other eBook name.

* This script actually doesn’t works with relative paths.
bass@bebop ~ $

It’s more easy to mantain this script that a lot of lil ebuilds and an eclass…
Any bug or sugest please mail me or bug.gentoo.org.

In other hand, my picts fo the USA trip are in my gallery