On Sun, Nov 14, 2010 at 12:28 AM, shreekant bohra <skbohra...@gmail.com>wrote:
> May be this is something everyone wanted, Narendra? > > http://www.stanford.edu/~pgbovine/cde.html > > <http://www.stanford.edu/~pgbovine/cde.html>"CDE is a tool that > automatically packages up the *C*ode, *D*ata, and *E*nvironment involved > in running any Linux command so that it can execute identically on another > computer without any installation or configuration. " > > In short, an exe like package system for GNU/Linux > > Thanks Sri, There are many ways to do this task.. 1) RunZframework (Or superDeb) - http://hacktolive.org/w/index.php?title=RUNZ reading the code is still pending... but this looks same as my Debbundle Approach - http://code.google.com/p/debbundle/ expect that the Debbunde do not have GUI right now.. The next SchoolOS release will not be on DVD, It will be a very minimal version of Ubuntu/Fedora. One can download applications and then install it. How It work - *Step 1 -- Create Bundles --* If you look at the code http://code.google.com/p/debbundle/source/browse/trunk/Bundle_Creator It is just a single magic line sudo apt-get -o dir::cache::archives="$LocalDir" install --download-only $ALLPACKAGES This single magic line download the $ALLPACKAGES in $LocalDir, For example if you want to install gtk-recordmydesktop then When you run this sudo apt-get -o dir::cache::archives="./gtk-recordmydesktop" install --download-only gtk-recordmydesktop This is just like a installation, but instead of installing, It will download gtk-recordmydesktop package in given directory with all its dependency. After this all the pacakge will zipped. This is how a deb_bundle is created. you can take the deb_bundle file into another desktop and apply installer script on it. which just unzip the file and install all deb files. Now Imagine, when Ubuntu 10.10 is released then one of you can create VLC bundle Lets says VLC.xx.u1004.i386.deb_bundle This means VLC with xx version for u10.10 on i386 arch. These script help a lots but Deb_bundle have to created on "Freshly Installed System" Example, A freshly installed system do not have Package A and B. If you want to create Bundle for Package A and Package A depends on package B then creating a deb_bundle on Package A will include Package B. But If you have installed Package B and after that you create a bundle for Package A then this will not include package B. This will be there in next release of schoolos , Now What is Wrong about this process.. See this.. for every distro, for every version we have to create package.. Ex VLC.xx.u1004.i386.deb_bundle VLC.xx.u1010.i386.deb_bundle VLC.xx.u1104.i386.deb_bundle VLC.xx.f11.i386.deb_bundle VLC.xx.f12.i386.deb_bundle VLC.xx.f13.i386.deb_bundle VLC.xx.u1004.amd64.deb_bundle VLC.xx.u1010.amd64.deb_bundle VLC.xx.u1104.amd64.deb_bundle VLC.xx.f11.amd64.deb_bundle VLC.xx.f12.amd64.deb_bundle VLC.xx.f13.amd64.deb_bundle This looks messy but this is one step ahead with current packaging of deb or rpm because is zip all needed.. should i list up all the packages which are depends on VLC etc to give complete picture of messiness. Now What I am looking for and working at my little FOSS research Lab is the Distroless system Lets figure out how we can improve this. Instead of creating Deb_bundle for Ubuntu/fedora/debian etc... Lets create a dependency chart of ALL package of Ubuntu Repo or most used applications.. Now lets give dependency Index to each package. This way we can figure out the most dependent libraries and packages. Let customise this minimal system as a CoreLinux. So we can just ship the coreLinux to users. Now this will be having very few revision and we can create CoreLinux on Most stable Linux systems like Debian or RedHat/Centos.. After creating CoreLinux we can create application in two way. ## easy way ## Because CoreLinux is based on debian or redhat, we can still create deb_bundle and in this case, size of deb_bundles will be small.. group of volunteer can create deb_bundles in 10 days.. ## Difficult way ## On top of CoreLinux, we have to download the source code and other things and compile into one package which itself has dependencies.. I have blogged once - http://wiki.schoolos.org/index.php?title=Dream_Linux Student can get associated with me on the work because It is a fact that if more then one people work on a project and efficiency increase.. -- ┌─────────────────────────┐ │ Narendra Sisodiya │ http://narendrasisodiya.com └─────────────────────────┘ _______________________________________________ Ilugd mailing list Ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd
