:D hi Jerome
On 10/1/25 8:35 PM, Jerome Shidel via Freedos-devel wrote:
On Oct 1, 2025, at 9:06 PM, victoria crenshaw via Freedos-devel
<[email protected]> wrote:
why do some packages are in a version sub folder?
When there are multiple versions of a package, they get versioned into sub
directories.
But, this is not anything the package updater needs to be concerned with.
Although the new version of FDRepo uses different directories to perform the
versioning, older versions of FDRepo versioned out multiple copies into
directories as well.
This has been going on for almost a decade.
oh ok
should we have the latest version as a .zip in the folder like the old times.
If you simply want the latest version that is in a specific repository, you
don’t need to worry if a package is versioned. For a single version, you fetch
the package from the group. For versioned packages, you do the same thing and
will get the latest version through a filesystem symlink that points to the
newest package. Same as it’s been for a very long time.
I need some help if we are going to implement this new stuff in fdnpkg16.exe
You would only need to implement “new” stuff if you wish to be able to fetch
older versions of a package using fdnpkg16.
yeah ill do that a bit later. once i try fdrepo
also i made a VERY unofficial mirror of the repositories of FreeDOS!~ because
ibiblio.org is VERY slow
http://4ch.mooo.com/freedos
http://4ch.su/freedos
both links are the same server
we need mirrors for FreeDOS
Well, if your running x86_64 version of Linux or macOS, you could download
FDRepo binaries and run a copy. Other CPUs for Linux or macOS will require
building it from source. Windows is not supported.
FDRepo has features in it to mirror or update packages from other FDRepo
managed repositories. It can also pull and create packages directly from GitLab
.
:-)
<3 ill do this!
I am deeply testing fdnpkg16 now
i found a random bug with FDNPKG.ZIP installation from remote
but thats the only package i have issues with. getting that package always
returns error
hmmm this actually i think was a legit bug in fdnpkg and got carried over to
the 16 bit port
INFO ibiblio.org is VERY SLOW rn and it is affecting fdnpkg16. i had to add
retries for it to get the whole repository from ibiblio.org
good news is my mirror is really quick. (i even made fdnpkg16.cfg files for
each) (it is a simple server. not much on it.)
if yall got issues with FDNPKG16 let me know it is not an abandoned project but
i am actively working on it. I'm currently looking for actual bugs!
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