From owner-freebsd-libh Tue Nov 27 10: 4:54 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-libh@freebsd.org Received: from tomts14-srv.bellnexxia.net (tomts14.bellnexxia.net [209.226.175.35]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B725F37B405 for ; Tue, 27 Nov 2001 10:04:50 -0800 (PST) Received: from khan.anarcat.dyndns.org ([65.94.177.56]) by tomts14-srv.bellnexxia.net (InterMail vM.4.01.03.16 201-229-121-116-20010115) with ESMTP id <20011127180449.NIFU21779.tomts14-srv.bellnexxia.net@khan.anarcat.dyndns.org>; Tue, 27 Nov 2001 13:04:49 -0500 Received: from shall.anarcat.dyndns.org (shall.anarcat.dyndns.org [192.168.0.1]) by khan.anarcat.dyndns.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9CF841A4B; Tue, 27 Nov 2001 13:07:33 -0500 (EST) Received: by shall.anarcat.dyndns.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 7B6E020ADB; Tue, 27 Nov 2001 13:06:14 -0500 (EST) Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2001 13:06:14 -0500 From: The Anarcat To: Jordan Hubbard Cc: Libh Subject: Re: package tools Message-ID: <20011127180613.GA520@shall.anarcat.dyndns.org> Mail-Followup-To: The Anarcat , Jordan Hubbard , Libh References: <20011127045959.GA5828@shall.anarcat.dyndns.org> <1820.1006849763@winston.freebsd.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="2fHTh5uZTiUOsy+g" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1820.1006849763@winston.freebsd.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.23.2i Sender: owner-freebsd-libh@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --2fHTh5uZTiUOsy+g Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue Nov 27, 2001 at 12:29:23AM -0800, Jordan Hubbard wrote: > > 2- Why "SYSINSTALL/" as meta-info directory? I mean, it's a bikeshed but > > sysinstall is the installation program, which is not necessary related > > to the package facilities. Is it realistic at all to challenge that > > convention? >=20 > Sure. As you say, they're separate and were probably only associated > at that level for convenience or because someone was confused. I'll see what I can do. > > 3- I will probably start working on basic package tools implementation > > (pkg_*) to be complete before starting to work on a GUI. In other words, > > I'll be hacking on pkgtools. In other words, I'm asking for > > advice/permission/gotcha, etc. :) >=20 > Sounds like a very reasonable place to start, though bear in mind those > will probably be straight TCL scripts if you want to implement this the > most direct way. :) Indeed. They will be tcl scripts. Well, actually, they *could* be C++, no? > > 4- Have anyone explored the problems of libh/ports system interaction? >=20 > I think at some point the ports collection could be mined for some exampl= es > of how to transition from the old package meta-data to the new, but that's > so far along the line that I don't think it's really worth even looking > at yet. Hmm.. I don't know. Because in order to have packages to work with in the first place, on *must* interact either with the ports collection, or with the old package database, which comes back to the same issue, IMHO: backwards compatibility. Anyways, Alex has already written a makepackage.sh, so I don't think it's too far-seeing. :) a. --2fHTh5uZTiUOsy+g Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (FreeBSD) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iEYEARECAAYFAjwD1hQACgkQttcWHAnWiGcHeACdEot/Ralv0IvmHC1WfXMJdA4C i9YAn1o8oMTfN28fhn7JjGX+ss4yE+M4 =wziv -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --2fHTh5uZTiUOsy+g-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-libh" in the body of the message