Re: SoC2009: libpkg, pkg tools rewrite

2009-05-04 Thread Tim Kientzle
On Sat, Apr 25, 2009 at 03:20:59PM -0400, David Forsythe wrote: This summer I'll be working on creating a package library and using that library to rewrite the pkg tools. Jeremy Lea r...@freebsd.org wrote: Since I've already done most of the work on this already, please, please, please, don't

Re: SoC2009: libpkg, pkg tools rewrite

2009-05-04 Thread Tim Kientzle
Jeremy Lea: 1. The library needs a global package manager. This needs to perform all of the tasks, and it should ideally do this through a task queue (which I didn't implement). See the lib/lib.h header in FreePKG. This sounds like a good idea to implement ... eventually. First job is to

Re: SoC2009: libpkg, pkg tools rewrite

2009-05-02 Thread Garrett Cooper
On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 2:45 PM, Jeremy Lea r...@freebsd.org wrote: Hi, On Sat, Apr 25, 2009 at 03:20:59PM -0400, David Forsythe wrote: This summer I'll be working on creating a package library and using that library to rewrite the pkg tools.  A package library has been discussed and even

Re: SoC2009: libpkg, pkg tools rewrite

2009-04-30 Thread Jeremy Lea
Hi, On Sat, Apr 25, 2009 at 03:20:59PM -0400, David Forsythe wrote: This summer I'll be working on creating a package library and using that library to rewrite the pkg tools. A package library has been discussed and even started before, but FreeBSD still does not have one. This summer I'd

Re: SoC2009: libpkg, pkg tools rewrite

2009-04-26 Thread Julien Laffaye
On Sat, Apr 25, 2009 at 9:20 PM, David Forsythe dfors...@freebsd.org wrote: Hi, I'm David Forsythe, 3rd year student at the University of Maryland, College Park.  For SoC2008 I worked on added parallel build support and database locks to ports.  I've been using FreeBSD for a while, and have

SoC2009: libpkg, pkg tools rewrite

2009-04-25 Thread David Forsythe
Hi, I'm David Forsythe, 3rd year student at the University of Maryland, College Park. For SoC2008 I worked on added parallel build support and database locks to ports. I've been using FreeBSD for a while, and have taken particular interest in ports and packages. This summer I'll be working on

Re: SoC2009: libpkg, pkg tools rewrite

2009-04-25 Thread perryh
David Forsythe freebsd.org!dfors...@agora.rdrop.com wrote: This summer I'll be working on creating a package library and using that library to rewrite the pkg tools ... As of last July there seemed to be no way to specify a mixture of local and remote repositories for pkg_add (discussion here):