Re: [Cooker] urpmi and bundles.

2002-08-26 Thread Guillaume Cottenceau 

Eyal Ben-David [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

 I think it can be a nice addition to URPMI to add this bundle functionality.
 For example:

There is a similar functionality in rpmdrake: the Mandrake
choices ordering, it is similar to the packages groups selection
during install; though the granularity is probably larger than
what you're talking about.

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[Cooker] urpmi and bundles.

2002-08-25 Thread Eyal Ben-David 

I tried today urpmi printer_drivers with the hope that urpmi would recognize 
the pseudo package. But it didn't...

in CPAN (www.cpan.org - perl package archive) there is a notion of a pseudo 
package usually with the prefix Bundle::

I think it can be a nice addition to URPMI to add this bundle functionality.
For example:

urpmi Bundle::glibc

would install all the glibc related packages and

urpmi --with-devel Bundle::glibc

would install all glibc packages + development packages

I think that there are many group of packages that can be bundled together to 
a bundle (gcc, XFree86, printer_drivers, gnome2 etc).

I thought a bit of the implementation. It looks like that this feature is not 
difficult to implement. A bundles section in the *.list files + additional 
code in URPM that add the packages of the bundle to the package list.

What do you think?
Eyal.

Re: [Cooker] urpmi and bundles.

2002-08-25 Thread Ben Reser 

On Sun, Aug 25, 2002 at 07:06:45PM +0300, Eyal Ben-David wrote:
 I tried today urpmi printer_drivers with the hope that urpmi would recognize 
 the pseudo package. But it didn't...
 
 in CPAN (www.cpan.org - perl package archive) there is a notion of a pseudo 
 package usually with the prefix Bundle::
 
 I think it can be a nice addition to URPMI to add this bundle functionality.
 For example:
 
   urpmi Bundle::glibc
 
 would install all the glibc related packages and
 
   urpmi --with-devel Bundle::glibc
 
 would install all glibc packages + development packages
 
 I think that there are many group of packages that can be bundled together to 
 a bundle (gcc, XFree86, printer_drivers, gnome2 etc).
 
 I thought a bit of the implementation. It looks like that this feature is not 
 difficult to implement. A bundles section in the *.list files + additional 
 code in URPM that add the packages of the bundle to the package list.

Actually you can implement bundles with urpmi just by creating empty
packages that require other packages. :)

But yeah this would be a nice thing to do in the future...

This might be the solution to the dreaded suggestion vs required
issue.  Take say mutt.  You could make a bundle for mutt that would pull
in things like urlview which isn't really required but is nice.  Power
users that don't want all the requirements can just install it the
hard way...

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