Re: Interactive tool for installing packages
On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 9:08 AM, Marin Atanasov Nikolov dna...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 8:01 AM, per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: Marin Atanasov Nikolov dna...@gmail.com wrote: If you do not have git installed, you could still get the latest snapshot of pkg_add_it via the Cgit repo. [1] [1] http://git.unix-heaven.org/cgit.cgi/pkg_add_it/ Aha! I'm sure I looked at that page before posting, but did not see how to pull down a snapshot (vs browsing individual files) the first time. It seems to have been reorganized since 1.2, as well as having grown quite a bit :) Yep, quite a lot of changes went to 1.3, the program was completely rewritten and introduced a lot of new features :) Most significant changes were: - own-styled lists were replaced by queue(3) macros, so generally now everything is dynamic and memory leak-free. - a lot of new functions dealing with packages, added a configuration module - etc... :) Hello again :) One thing that can be improved is the recursion introduced by DEPS_FULL_TREE=true, so that dependencies can be found easier and faster from INDEX, but I'm looking into this already, since I think that feature is very useful when you need to know the dependencies of a package in a tree-view. I spent some time today working on the algorithm for finding package dependencies from INDEX and managed to improve it a lot, so now dependencies are being found in times faster than before (!!) The previous algorithm was recursing over the INDEX file in order to find all dependencies to build a tree-view of the package dependencies, and now only 1 iteration is needed to accomplish this :) Now, only if there was a libpkg ready, then pkg_add_it(1) could be transformed into a standalone install tool, which does not need pkg_add(1) for it's job :) Regards, Marin Regards, Marin -- Marin Atanasov Nikolov dnaeon AT gmail DOT com daemon AT unix-heaven DOT org http://www.unix-heaven.org/ -- Marin Atanasov Nikolov dnaeon AT gmail DOT com daemon AT unix-heaven DOT org http://www.unix-heaven.org/ ___ 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: Interactive tool for installing packages
Marin Atanasov Nikolov dna...@gmail.com wrote: in order to install the program, you need to: # git clone git://git.unix-heaven.org/public/pkg_add_it ... Surely, there's room for improvement, but that's a start.. :) Dunno about anyone else, but from my standpoint it would be a _big_ improvement to provide a more recent snapshot than the 6-month-old pkg_add_it-1.2.tar.gz on ftp.freebsd.org so one doesn't have to install git, with its boatload of dependencies*, to see the recent improvements. * The amount of stuff downloaded by cd /usr/ports/devel/git ; make fetch-recursive is, shall we say, impressive. ___ 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: Interactive tool for installing packages
On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 10:01 AM, per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: Marin Atanasov Nikolov dna...@gmail.com wrote: in order to install the program, you need to: # git clone git://git.unix-heaven.org/public/pkg_add_it ... Surely, there's room for improvement, but that's a start.. :) Dunno about anyone else, but from my standpoint it would be a _big_ improvement to provide a more recent snapshot than the 6-month-old pkg_add_it-1.2.tar.gz on ftp.freebsd.org so one doesn't have to install git, with its boatload of dependencies*, to see the recent improvements. If you do not have git installed, you could still get the latest snapshot of pkg_add_it via the Cgit repo. [1] Currently the latest version of the program is tagged as RELEASE_1_3, so just go to [1] and get a compressed snapshot of the program, then extract and compile it. I'm planning to submit a PR to update the port soon, but before that I still need to finish a few things. Regards, Marin [1] http://git.unix-heaven.org/cgit.cgi/pkg_add_it/ * The amount of stuff downloaded by cd /usr/ports/devel/git ; make fetch-recursive is, shall we say, impressive. -- Marin Atanasov Nikolov dnaeon AT gmail DOT com daemon AT unix-heaven DOT org http://www.unix-heaven.org/ ___ 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: Interactive tool for installing packages
In the last episode (Nov 10), per...@pluto.rain.com said: Marin Atanasov Nikolov dna...@gmail.com wrote: in order to install the program, you need to: # git clone git://git.unix-heaven.org/public/pkg_add_it ... Surely, there's room for improvement, but that's a start.. :) Dunno about anyone else, but from my standpoint it would be a _big_ improvement to provide a more recent snapshot than the 6-month-old pkg_add_it-1.2.tar.gz on ftp.freebsd.org so one doesn't have to install git, with its boatload of dependencies*, to see the recent improvements. * The amount of stuff downloaded by cd /usr/ports/devel/git ; make fetch-recursive is, shall we say, impressive. I use the devel/hg-git port to pull all the git trees I need to access using mercurial. -- Dan Nelson dnel...@allantgroup.com ___ 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: Interactive tool for installing packages
Marin Atanasov Nikolov dna...@gmail.com wrote: If you do not have git installed, you could still get the latest snapshot of pkg_add_it via the Cgit repo. [1] [1] http://git.unix-heaven.org/cgit.cgi/pkg_add_it/ Aha! I'm sure I looked at that page before posting, but did not see how to pull down a snapshot (vs browsing individual files) the first time. It seems to have been reorganized since 1.2, as well as having grown quite a bit :) ___ 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: Interactive tool for installing packages
On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 8:01 AM, per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: Marin Atanasov Nikolov dna...@gmail.com wrote: If you do not have git installed, you could still get the latest snapshot of pkg_add_it via the Cgit repo. [1] [1] http://git.unix-heaven.org/cgit.cgi/pkg_add_it/ Aha! I'm sure I looked at that page before posting, but did not see how to pull down a snapshot (vs browsing individual files) the first time. It seems to have been reorganized since 1.2, as well as having grown quite a bit :) Yep, quite a lot of changes went to 1.3, the program was completely rewritten and introduced a lot of new features :) Most significant changes were: - own-styled lists were replaced by queue(3) macros, so generally now everything is dynamic and memory leak-free. - a lot of new functions dealing with packages, added a configuration module - etc... :) One thing that can be improved is the recursion introduced by DEPS_FULL_TREE=true, so that dependencies can be found easier and faster from INDEX, but I'm looking into this already, since I think that feature is very useful when you need to know the dependencies of a package in a tree-view. Regards, Marin -- Marin Atanasov Nikolov dnaeon AT gmail DOT com daemon AT unix-heaven DOT org http://www.unix-heaven.org/ ___ 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: Interactive tool for installing packages
On Tue, Nov 09, 2010 at 09:32:15PM +0200, Marin Atanasov Nikolov wrote: Hello, Some time ago I've started a thread on freebsd-ports@ regarding an interactive tool for installing packages under FreeBSD - pkg_add_it. Now that I got some time to work on the program, I have added a few additional features to it, which I think someone might find useful like: - dependencies tree view of packages (useful to find out package dependencies) - a similar tool that does this already exists - pkg_tree, but it only works for installed ports, while pkg_add_it can show you every package from INDEX - regex support - displays categories and packages from each of them found in INDEX - some code improvements, etc... The code can be found here [1] and in order to install the program, you need to: # git clone git://git.unix-heaven.org/public/pkg_add_it # cd pkg_add_it make install clean I still haven't updated the manual pages yet, but you can read something about the program on the web page [2]. Screenshots can be seen as well. [3] Would be nice if someone can test it, and provide some feedback - what can be removed, improved, added, etc.. Surely, there's room for improvement, but that's a start.. :) Thanks, Marin [1] git.unix-heaven.org [2] www.unix-heaven.org/index.php?page=pkg_add_it [3] http://www.unix-heaven.org/pkg_add_it-new-gfx/ -- Marin Atanasov Nikolov dnaeon AT gmail DOT com daemon AT unix-heaven DOT org http://www.unix-heaven.org/ It looks pretty neat. I spent a minute or two trying it out, and my only suggestion at this point is to check errno for common errors instead of immediately calling ERRX to report non-zero returns from system calls. It's kind of annoying to see a message like pkg_add_it: Error in config_read_file() from config.c at line 179: No such file or directory when it's my fault that pkg_add_it can't find its config file. =) Ditto for things like permissions errors and getenv(3). sudo doesn't bring in my environment unless I use -E, so I get the following message when a 'getenv(PAGER)' fails: pkg_add_it: Error in pkg_display_found() from pkg.c at line 418: No such file or directory -Mark ___ 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: Interactive tool for installing packages
On Tue, Nov 9, 2010 at 10:59 PM, Mark Johnston mark...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Nov 09, 2010 at 09:32:15PM +0200, Marin Atanasov Nikolov wrote: Hello, Some time ago I've started a thread on freebsd-ports@ regarding an interactive tool for installing packages under FreeBSD - pkg_add_it. Now that I got some time to work on the program, I have added a few additional features to it, which I think someone might find useful like: - dependencies tree view of packages (useful to find out package dependencies) - a similar tool that does this already exists - pkg_tree, but it only works for installed ports, while pkg_add_it can show you every package from INDEX - regex support - displays categories and packages from each of them found in INDEX - some code improvements, etc... The code can be found here [1] and in order to install the program, you need to: # git clone git://git.unix-heaven.org/public/pkg_add_it # cd pkg_add_it make install clean I still haven't updated the manual pages yet, but you can read something about the program on the web page [2]. Screenshots can be seen as well. [3] Would be nice if someone can test it, and provide some feedback - what can be removed, improved, added, etc.. Surely, there's room for improvement, but that's a start.. :) Thanks, Marin [1] git.unix-heaven.org [2] www.unix-heaven.org/index.php?page=pkg_add_it [3] http://www.unix-heaven.org/pkg_add_it-new-gfx/ -- Marin Atanasov Nikolov dnaeon AT gmail DOT com daemon AT unix-heaven DOT org http://www.unix-heaven.org/ Hello Mark, It looks pretty neat. I spent a minute or two trying it out, and my only suggestion at this point is to check errno for common errors instead of immediately calling ERRX to report non-zero returns from system calls. It's kind of annoying to see a message like pkg_add_it: Error in config_read_file() from config.c at line 179: No such file or directory Yep, my fault, the port does not install the config file in /usr/local/etc/pkg_add_it.conf I'll take care of adding it to the port :) when it's my fault that pkg_add_it can't find its config file. =) Ditto for things like permissions errors and getenv(3). sudo doesn't bring in my environment unless I use -E, so I get the following message when a 'getenv(PAGER)' fails: pkg_add_it: Error in pkg_display_found() from pkg.c at line 418: No such file or directory Thanks for the feedback, I need to fix that one too :) Regards, Marin -Mark -- Marin Atanasov Nikolov dnaeon AT gmail DOT com daemon AT unix-heaven DOT org http://www.unix-heaven.org/ ___ 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: Interactive tool for installing packages
On Tue, Nov 09, 2010 at 11:08:07PM +0200, Marin Atanasov Nikolov wrote: On Tue, Nov 9, 2010 at 10:59 PM, Mark Johnston mark...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Nov 09, 2010 at 09:32:15PM +0200, Marin Atanasov Nikolov wrote: Hello, Some time ago I've started a thread on freebsd-ports@ regarding an interactive tool for installing packages under FreeBSD - pkg_add_it. Now that I got some time to work on the program, I have added a few additional features to it, which I think someone might find useful like: ?- dependencies tree view of packages (useful to find out package dependencies) ?- a similar tool that does this already exists - pkg_tree, but it only works for installed ports, while pkg_add_it can show you every package from INDEX ?- regex support ?- displays categories and packages from each of them found in INDEX ?- some code improvements, etc... The code can be found here [1] and in order to install the program, you need to: # git clone git://git.unix-heaven.org/public/pkg_add_it # cd pkg_add_it make install clean I still haven't updated the manual pages yet, but you can read something about the program on the web page [2]. Screenshots can be seen as well. [3] Would be nice if someone can test it, and provide some feedback - what can be removed, improved, added, etc.. Surely, there's room for improvement, but that's a start.. :) Thanks, Marin [1] git.unix-heaven.org [2] www.unix-heaven.org/index.php?page=pkg_add_it [3] http://www.unix-heaven.org/pkg_add_it-new-gfx/ -- Marin Atanasov Nikolov dnaeon AT gmail DOT com daemon AT unix-heaven DOT org http://www.unix-heaven.org/ Hello Mark, It looks pretty neat. I spent a minute or two trying it out, and my only suggestion at this point is to check errno for common errors instead of immediately calling ERRX to report non-zero returns from system calls. It's kind of annoying to see a message like pkg_add_it: Error in config_read_file() from config.c at line 179: No such file or directory Yep, my fault, the port does not install the config file in /usr/local/etc/pkg_add_it.conf I'll take care of adding it to the port :) Well, it was more of a general suggestion. I didn't even install the program - I just compiled and ran it. Nevertheless, I had to look at the source to figure out what the actual problem was. -Mark ___ 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
