Date: Tue, 9 Nov 2010 15:59:55 -0500 From: Mark Johnston <markjdb@gmail.com> To: Marin Atanasov Nikolov <dnaeon@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Interactive tool for installing packages Message-ID: <20101109205955.GB10842@mark-laptop-bsd.mark-home> In-Reply-To: <AANLkTimCSkE5Ukc4DrVpMZ6ZxggP2u-HRKqeKWZT%2B%2BNO@mail.gmail.com> References: <AANLkTimCSkE5Ukc4DrVpMZ6ZxggP2u-HRKqeKWZT%2B%2BNO@mail.gmail.com>
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On Tue, Nov 09, 2010 at 09:32:15PM +0200, Marin Atanasov Nikolov wrote: > Hello, > > Some time ago I've started a thread on freebsd-ports@ regarding an > interactive tool for installing packages under FreeBSD - pkg_add_it. > > Now that I got some time to work on the program, I have added a few > additional features to it, which I think someone might find useful > like: > > - dependencies tree view of packages (useful to find out package dependencies) > - a similar tool that does this already exists - pkg_tree, but it > only works for installed ports, while pkg_add_it can show you every > package from INDEX > - regex support > - displays categories and packages from each of them found in INDEX > - some code improvements, etc... > > The code can be found here [1] and in order to install the program, you need to: > > # git clone git://git.unix-heaven.org/public/pkg_add_it > # cd pkg_add_it && make install clean > > I still haven't updated the manual pages yet, but you can read > something about the program on the web page [2]. > > Screenshots can be seen as well. [3] > > Would be nice if someone can test it, and provide some feedback - what > can be removed, improved, added, etc.. > > Surely, there's room for improvement, but that's a start.. :) > > Thanks, > Marin > > [1] git.unix-heaven.org > [2] www.unix-heaven.org/index.php?page=pkg_add_it > [3] http://www.unix-heaven.org/pkg_add_it-new-gfx/ > > -- > Marin Atanasov Nikolov > > dnaeon AT gmail DOT com > daemon AT unix-heaven DOT org > http://www.unix-heaven.org/ It looks pretty neat. I spent a minute or two trying it out, and my only suggestion at this point is to check errno for common errors instead of immediately calling ERRX to report non-zero returns from system calls. It's kind of annoying to see a message like pkg_add_it: Error in config_read_file() from config.c at line 179: No such file or directory when it's my fault that pkg_add_it can't find its config file. =) Ditto for things like permissions errors and getenv(3). sudo doesn't bring in my environment unless I use -E, so I get the following message when a 'getenv("PAGER")' fails: pkg_add_it: Error in pkg_display_found() from pkg.c at line 418: No such file or directory -Mark
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