Re: GSoC:Complete Package support in the pkg_install tools and cleanup
On Tue, May 04, 2010 at 10:30:13AM -0700, Julien Laffaye wrote: On Tue, May 4, 2010 at 3:15 AM, Andrew Brampton brampton+free...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Julien, Glad you got onto the GSoC programme. I'm curious, what benefit is a complete package over many individual ones? Hi Andrew, If you cant or dont want to use the remote feature of of pkg_add (ex. your packages are built with non default options and you think its overkill to setup a server to distribute them) then you make a complete package. You only have to copy one file (say on an usb device), which is less error prone than 150 files. The global idea is to write a meta port which depends on the desired ports, type `make complete-package`, copy the output file on the machine to bootstrap, pkg_add /path/to/complete-pkg and voila! Do you intend to add the complete-package target also or is that out of scope? -- WXS ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: GSoC:Complete Package support in the pkg_install tools and cleanup
On Wed, May 5, 2010 at 7:34 PM, Wesley Shields w...@freebsd.org wrote: On Tue, May 04, 2010 at 10:30:13AM -0700, Julien Laffaye wrote: On Tue, May 4, 2010 at 3:15 AM, Andrew Brampton brampton+free...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Julien, Glad you got onto the GSoC programme. I'm curious, what benefit is a complete package over many individual ones? Hi Andrew, If you cant or dont want to use the remote feature of of pkg_add (ex. your packages are built with non default options and you think its overkill to setup a server to distribute them) then you make a complete package. You only have to copy one file (say on an usb device), which is less error prone than 150 files. The global idea is to write a meta port which depends on the desired ports, type `make complete-package`, copy the output file on the machine to bootstrap, pkg_add /path/to/complete-pkg and voila! Do you intend to add the complete-package target also or is that out of scope? Yes, it is scheduled to add the ability to build complete packages from the ports tree. The name of the target is not yet endorsed but I think that complete-package is pretty straight forward. Regards, Julien ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: GSoC:Complete Package support in the pkg_install tools and cleanup
On Tue, May 4, 2010 at 3:28 AM, Julien Laffaye kime...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, During this summer, I'll work on the pkg_install tools to add complete package support. A complete package is a package which includes all the required dependencies in its tarball. Unlike the PBI package format of PC-BSD, once a complete package is installed, it appears as every package contained in the complete package was installed separately. [snip] Best regards, Julien Laffaye Hi Julien, Glad you got onto the GSoC programme. I'm curious, what benefit is a complete package over many individual ones? Andrew ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: GSoC:Complete Package support in the pkg_install tools and cleanup
On Tue, May 4, 2010 at 3:15 AM, Andrew Brampton brampton+free...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Julien, Glad you got onto the GSoC programme. I'm curious, what benefit is a complete package over many individual ones? Hi Andrew, If you cant or dont want to use the remote feature of of pkg_add (ex. your packages are built with non default options and you think its overkill to setup a server to distribute them) then you make a complete package. You only have to copy one file (say on an usb device), which is less error prone than 150 files. The global idea is to write a meta port which depends on the desired ports, type `make complete-package`, copy the output file on the machine to bootstrap, pkg_add /path/to/complete-pkg and voila! Regards, Julien ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
GSoC:Complete Package support in the pkg_install tools and cleanup
Hello, During this summer, I'll work on the pkg_install tools to add complete package support. A complete package is a package which includes all the required dependencies in its tarball. Unlike the PBI package format of PC-BSD, once a complete package is installed, it appears as every package contained in the complete package was installed separately. As a side effect, I'll add libarchive support to the pkg_add tool to make installation as efficient as possible and do some refactoring to allow code re usability. I'll also surely write automated tests which would benefit to the pkg_install tools. My page on the wiki is http://wiki.freebsd.org/SOC2010JulienLaffaye You can email me on or off list is you have any questions, comments or suggestions. Best regards, Julien Laffaye ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
