Keeping the list in loop ... Regards, Moinak.
---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Moinak Ghosh <[email protected]> Date: Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 8:17 PM Subject: Re: [belenix-discuss] Update on package repository for BeleniX To: Francois Dion <francois.dion at gmail.com> On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 8:08 PM, Francois Dion <francois.dion at gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 10:01 AM, Moinak Ghosh <moinakg at belenix.org> wrote: >> Hi Folks, >> >> It appears that pkg-get that I had been working on for several days is >> not under a FOSS license. As such it cannot be freely modified and >> used. As per original plan a pkg-get based enhanced framework was to >> be the centerpiece of the repository support for BeleniX at present using >> SVR4 packages. This pours cold water over that plan and screws up the >> 0.7.2 schedule. > > Have you contacted the author, Phil Brown? > phil at bolthole.com > >> Now we are forced to consider alternatives. Of course changing the packaging >> framework is a major change that cannot be done at a short notice and >> definitely not for 0.7.2 incremental release. However a repository setup for >> BeleniX is absolutely needed sooner rather than later. > > What are you trying to achieve? The out of the box functionality of > pkg-get has always worked for me. Many things not supported by pkg-get, some of which I already implemented unfortunately: *) Support for 7Zip compressed packages *) Transparent multi-repository support *) Alternate-root support *) Advanced dependency management (release-based pinning, boolean dependencies etc.) *) Use of Prozilla for multi-mirror chunked downloading *) Ability to manage ZFS based boot environments and upgrade the system *) Advanced metadata search capability ... and more. I have not yet tried contacting Phil Brown, but dunno how good it will be given this: http://www.blastwave.org/dclarke/blog/?q=node/111 I will try to ping him anyway. Regards, Moinak. > > Francois > -- ================================ http://www.belenix.org/ http://moinakg.wordpress.com/ -- ================================ http://www.belenix.org/ http://moinakg.wordpress.com/
