Before I begin my post, I’d like to apologise to all the Planet Larry readers for the 10 hours or so of downtime I caused sometime yesterday. I don’t always break things, and that borkage was, well – quite unintended. For the technically inclined, basically I had set some .htaccess restrictions on another domain which I forgot I was hotlinking files to. This carried over the .htaccess restrictions and as my blog was aggregated, this somehow carried over there too.
OK, back to what’s new and amazing. Some days ago I wrote an article on RememberTheMilk, a really awesome to-do list website (I have 60+ and counting tasks listed over there now!). However a main issue with it is that even though it’s extremely accessible through lots of mediums (phone, email, twitter, plasmoids, etc) – they are all graphical! We’re missing a command line interface for it!
Well, not quite so. With some Google-fu I found some French guy with a fetish for white rabbits (no, seriously this time I’m friggin’ sure he’s french) who made a command line tool. It’s not much more than a script, but that doesn’t stop me from me from putting it in the sunrise Portage overlay so Gentooer’s can get it! Actually, what did stop me was the fact that 1) I didn’t know how to write ebuilds, 2) I didn’t have an account to commit ebuilds to the sunrise-overlay, and 3) I didn’t have a GPG key (for part 2).
So, a while later learning about ebuild writing, getting a key and a commit-able account, babysat ever so generously by hwoarang and idl0r for the ebuild part and scarabeus for the key and account, I have today commited two ebuilds to the sunrise overlay (layman -a sunrise). The first is app-misc/rtm, which is the tool itself, and the second is dev-perl/WebService-RTMAgent, which is a Perl module (dependency for rtm). I’m not sure when it’ll get into the publicly approved sunrise overlay, but it’s definitely there in the developer checkout (Unless I borked up the commit).
So, install it, try it out on your architectures (I’m only ~amd64 dont’ forget), and enjoy! Hopefully this’ll mark the start of more Gentoo contribution. Or it will if I don’t get distracted and play this game about white rabbits. – or maybe this one, which is more related to rabbits – in more ways than one.
What the hell do rabbits and ebuilds have in common? 
Stupid French guy.
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