adding patch from ciaranm, and some additional docs from author.

4 files changed, 85 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/app-misc/mtail/Manifest b/app-misc/mtail/Manifest
index a2fede2b3073..2361134c863a 100644
--- a/app-misc/mtail/Manifest
+++ b/app-misc/mtail/Manifest
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
-MD5 5295b63467099f1e0a1e55f531dd8d04 mtail-1.1.1-r1.ebuild 755
+MD5 aed11d5e15aee7c8028bd9e1f28f5afc mtail-1.1.1-r1.ebuild 771
 MD5 e9521d2616d61972fe6ebe7550f3d449 mtail-1.1.1.ebuild 586
-MD5 e9bf89055f957d964f45414e7b83d6e9 ChangeLog 522
+MD5 08dc9e3f30d169d054ae12d0a3f3d9ee ChangeLog 718
 MD5 d8d8d641e0e3ddcd194f2d82609bdd8c metadata.xml 1580
 MD5 d53c96ae2db32498bc23b9f5ee342a5d files/digest-mtail-1.1.1 58
 MD5 55e03d3434a0e7bbdffb7a1db35434e7 files/digest-mtail-1.1.1-r1 122
diff --git a/app-misc/mtail/files/digest-mtail-1.1.1-r1 b/app-misc/mtail/files/digest-mtail-1.1.1-r1
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..90fbe50ac8c9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/app-misc/mtail/files/digest-mtail-1.1.1-r1
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+MD5 166ccd3bfea04fdc81940b256d7d6f18 mtail-1.1.1.tgz 9124
+MD5 6a66666049b399b07dc0b263fdb47b28 mtailrc-syslog.sample 1785
diff --git a/app-misc/mtail/files/mtail-1.1.1-remove-blanks.patch b/app-misc/mtail/files/mtail-1.1.1-remove-blanks.patch
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..9645e263deda
--- /dev/null
+++ b/app-misc/mtail/files/mtail-1.1.1-remove-blanks.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,52 @@
+--- mtail.orig	2003-11-07 19:02:34.000000000 +0000
++++ mtail	2003-11-07 19:19:18.000000000 +0000
+@@ -46,6 +46,7 @@
+ verbose = 0
+ silent = 0
+ active = 0
++remove_blanks = 0
+ 
+ # sets up the interrupt handler, calls processargs(), sets up and starts the
+ # tailers.
+@@ -119,6 +120,8 @@
+             if line[len(line)-1] == '\n':
+                 line = line[:len(line)-1]
+             line = filter(line)
++            if remove_blanks and not line:
++                continue
+             lock.acquire()
+             try:
+                 if (multiple or verbose) and (not silent) \
+@@ -138,12 +141,14 @@
+     global verbose
+     global silent
+     global config_file
++    global remove_blanks
+     filenames = []
+     lines = None
+     follow = 0
+     try:
+         opts, pargs = getopt.getopt(sys.argv[1:], 'fn:?hvq', ["follow",
+-            "lines=", "help", "verbose", "quiet", "silent", "config="])
++            "lines=", "help", "verbose", "quiet", "silent", "config=",
++            "remove-blanks"])
+     except getopt.error:
+         print 'unrecognized option!'
+         print
+@@ -163,6 +168,8 @@
+             silent = 1
+         elif opt[0] in ['--config']:
+             config_file = opt[1]
++        elif opt[0] in ['--remove-blanks']:
++            remove_blanks = 1
+     if lines == None:
+         lines = 10
+     for filename in pargs:
+@@ -186,6 +193,7 @@
+     print '      -v, --verbose          always output headers giving file names'
+     print '      -q, --quiet, --silent  never output headers giving file names'
+     print '      --config=FILE          use config file FILE instead of ~/.mtailrc'
++    print '      --remove-blanks        do not display blank lines'
+     print
+     print 'with more than one filename, mtail will precede each chunk from'
+     print 'each with a header giving the file name. if no filenames are given'
diff --git a/app-misc/mtail/mtail-1.1.1-r1.ebuild b/app-misc/mtail/mtail-1.1.1-r1.ebuild
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..3dafa4bf2543
--- /dev/null
+++ b/app-misc/mtail/mtail-1.1.1-r1.ebuild
@@ -0,0 +1,29 @@
+# Copyright 1999-2003 Gentoo Technologies, Inc.
+# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
+# $Header: /var/cvsroot/gentoo-x86/app-misc/mtail/mtail-1.1.1-r1.ebuild,v 1.1 2003/12/26 18:29:08 taviso Exp $
+
+DESCRIPTION="tail workalike, that performs output colourising"
+HOMEPAGE="http://matt.immute.net/src/mtail/"
+SRC_URI="http://matt.immute.net/src/mtail/mtail-${PV}.tgz
+	http://matt.immute.net/src/mtail/mtailrc-syslog.sample"
+LICENSE="as-is"
+
+SLOT="0"
+KEYWORDS="~x86 ~alpha ~sparc"
+IUSE=""
+
+DEPEND=""
+
+RDEPEND="dev-lang/python"
+
+S=${WORKDIR}/${P}
+
+src_unpack() {
+	unpack ${P}.tgz
+	cd ${S}; epatch ${FILESDIR}/${P}-remove-blanks.patch
+}
+
+src_install() {
+	dobin mtail
+	dodoc CHANGES LICENSE mtailrc.sample README ${DISTDIR}/mtailrc-syslog.sample
+}