On Tue, 2005-03-01 at 10:51 -0500, Ned Ludd wrote:
> On Mon, 2005-02-28 at 20:04 +0100, Natanael Copa wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Just a little report of the do_unpack for emerge.c (the busybox applet)
> >
> > I have got the logic working, but I need to clean it up a bit. I'm doing
> > a separate applet, epkg. Currently it just installs a binary, but it can
> > do it from stdin. This has a function tbz2_install that can be called
> > from emerge.c.
> >
> > int tbz2_install(FILE *instream, const char *root_dir,
> > const char *vdb_path, const char *install_mask);
> >
> > So the do upack would look like:
> >
> > infile = fopen(tbz2file);
> > tbz2install(infile, config.root_dir, "var/db/pkg", config.install_mask);
> > close(infile);
> >
> > you get the idea...
> >
> > I also need to modify the tar -j ... stuff in epkg to use the
> > "unarchive.h" stuff instead of popen("tar -j ...").
>
> Great cuz popen() is just evil.
>
> > I'll send a patch as soon I have cleaned it up a bit.
> >
> > I have a couple of questions though:
> >
> > * what do you think of having a separate applet and let emerge.c run on
> > top of this applet?
> If you willing to code it and it's good code then I see no reason not to
> use this as a backend tool.
I'm willing, but I guess someone else have to judge if its good code or
not.
> > This is not necessary, but I think its more
> > according to the unix philosopy. many cooperating small programs rather
> > than one big do-everything program...
> >
> > * what do you think of the name "epkg"? I can rename it to tbz2pkg,
> > tbz2install/tbz2uninstall or whatever.
> the name seems fine to me. Short and sweet.
Looks like others also think that... encap packages and easypackage.
http://google.com/search?q=epkg
However tbz2pkg is untaken. http://google.com/search?q=tbz2pkg
> > * Could it be interesting to have a C written epkg (or whatever the name
> > ends up with) for standard glibc gentoo? I cannot see any good reason to
> > not.
> You would have to talk to our python guru's about that gentoo-portage-dev ml.
> For the most part they are pretty uninterested in code that's not python.
:-/ I was dreaming of apt/tbz2 ...
I'll ask when I've got the busybox stuff working.
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