On Thu, 15 Apr 2010, Barbie wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 12:50:29PM -0700, Jan Dubois wrote:
> >
> > PPM4 actually supports putting the PPD file inside the tarball. When the
> > tarball is downloaded with a .ppmx extension, then the client knows to
> > extract the .ppd from inside the file and install everything else according
> > to this .ppd file.
> >
> > The big problem with this scheme is though that is doesn't allow you
> > to install prerequisites using this mechanism: You can double-click on
> > a .ppmx file in a web browser and it can be downloaded and installed
> > automatically. The ppm installer however no longer knows where the file
> > came from, so it cannot look for prerequisites in the same place.
>
> The last time I used PPM it was able to support multiple repositories,
> in the same way apt or yum does. I also thought it was able to install
> prerequisites from these if a local ppd wasn't found. I'd certainly like
> to see a double-click installer work like that :)
Yes, it certainly downloads prerequisites from the configured repositories.
I was talking about downloading .ppmx files from some random website that
you didn't configure first as a repository in the PPM client. The double-
clicked file is not able to download additional prerequisites from that
"random website" it came from itself. Think "private/internal repository
of a bunch of interdependent modules".
Once you have to configure the web site as a repo there isn't much advantage
of installing modules via the browser compare to installing them with the
PPM client:
ppm repo add random http://random.example.com/repo
ppm install my-random-module
Cheers,
-Jan
