From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Apr 25 19:58:31 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA29525 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Sat, 25 Apr 1998 19:58:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from zippy.dyn.ml.org (garbanzo@spain-13.ppp.hooked.net [206.169.228.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA29518 for ; Sat, 25 Apr 1998 19:58:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from garbanzo@hooked.net) Received: from localhost (garbanzo@localhost) by zippy.dyn.ml.org (8.8.8/8.8.7) with SMTP id TAA04584 for ; Sat, 25 Apr 1998 19:58:38 -0700 (PDT) X-Authentication-Warning: zippy.dyn.ml.org: garbanzo owned process doing -bs Date: Sat, 25 Apr 1998 19:58:38 -0700 (PDT) From: Alex X-Sender: garbanzo@zippy.dyn.ml.org To: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Speaking of packaging tools.. Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Here's a little something that was posted to the kde-devel mailing list. It only generates ELF binaries which isn't a huge problem, because it doesn't seem to use anything from libc. Perhaps this could prove useful in revamping pkg_*. And, yes, it does work nicely (without ELF libs). - alex "Contrary to popular belief, penguins are not the salvation of modern technology. Neither do they throw parties for the urban proletariat." ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Sat, 25 Apr 1998 17:51:20 -0500 From: Timothy Whitfield To: kde-devel@alpha.tat.physik.uni-tuebingen.de Subject: kinstallshield: CALL FOR TESTORS Resent-Date: Sun, 26 Apr 1998 02:04:43 +0200 Resent-From: kde-devel@alpha.tat.physik.uni-tuebingen.de This call is not actually to test kinstallshield itself, being that it isn't written yet. It is; however, to test the first baby step program that is working toward kinstallshield (still trying to come up with a better name. any ideas?) The program is called bzip2se, and it creates self-extracting archives from tar.bz2 files. It isn't a windowing program, but it is a baby step toward accomplishing an installer. You can find the self-extracting archive of it at ftp://dominion.datasync.com/pub/extract_se by next week sometime I should have the dns set so you can go to ftp://ftp.100webstreet.com/pub/extract_se instead (btw -- I am interested in keeping a binary shadow archive for kde someone talk to me.) Anyone interested in "trying" to get it to work on other OS's please email me. This self-extracting archive was compiled on linux-2.0.33 The self extractor creator itself should work on any elf based platform. I would be VERY interested to know if it works on a.out or such. Email me, and I will send it to you in a more portable format. THIS IS ALPHA-WARE!!! NO SPAM ABOUT NO AUTOCONF IN THIS DIST! I don't know how to use autoconf, I am investigating how to use autoconf, and this will be available in autoconf at a later date. tar and bzip2 are required to compress a file before making it self extracting. bzip2 is not required to unextract, but tar is. Seemed like it would be a waste to compile in tar when it is already on every unix and the whole point is to keep the overhead down on the self-extracting files. Thanks, Timothy To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message