I am releasing FDPKG 0.1 Beta today which brings to realization my goal of implementing the package system used on my Enhanced Releases in C to bring more advanced features. This version includes some support for dependencies as well as installing, removing, and configuring packages, plus a regular FreeDOS package (i.e one not coming from my distro) can be installed simply by using the /E option which specifies to extract only, not check for dependencies or launch configuration scripts. It is available at www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/distributions/blair/fdpkg/fdpkg01.zip
The syntax has changed slightly since fdpkg.bat, but should be easy to learn and is much simpler. The new syntax demands that instead of specifying "source" or "binary" as an argument, simply append type the full name of the package (ending in 'x' or 's') and fdpkg will do its best to detect a source or binary package. Instead of "Install" as an argument, it is "/Install", and "/Remove" instead of "Remove", etc.... Also, it is unneccesary to specify the directory of a package to install, but rather simply add this to the filename of the path; instead of "c:\package\dir pkgx.zip", "c:\package\dir\pkgx.zip". If the filename's last character is not 'x', it is assumed to be a source package. Some imrovements have been made to the way things are done, but older packages should run and integrate perfectly fine into this version. Some improvements are: - remove.bat is no longer needed to remove a package, but is now more of a script that specifies to remove extra files not originally part of the package (e.g. unzipped after the package was installed by the configure script). - depends.bat is outdated and can be replaced by a simple depends.txt where each line in that text file represents a needed package minus the 'x' or 's'. An example depends.txt would be: cwsdpmi dos4gw dos32a - Wildcards are now accepted, which means that you can do "FDPKG /REMOVE *.*" to delete all packages from your system (though NOT recommended :-) ) As of yet, there are no known bugs, but I'm sure that will change. Hopefully, my next Enhanced Release distro will integrate this new version into the installation process, and will possibly automatically check dependencies of packages after installation. Planned features include: The ability to attempt to install a package that is depended on by another package Support for archives packed with 7za.exe Error checking of Unzip.exe [and 7za.exe] Any suggestions by others may be considered -- Fall is my favorite season in Los Angeles, watching the birds change color and fall from the trees. David Letterman (1947 - ) See ya ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. DOWNLOAD SPLUNK! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_idv37&alloc_id865&op=click _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
