On 8/28/06, Jonas Karlsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Sun, 27 Aug 2006 23:42:24 +0200, Michael Homer
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 8/28/06, Jonas Karlsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> I'm thinking of creating a wrapper script for Compile and InstallPackage
>> so that one only has to gie one command to install an app. The
>> application
>> should be installed from recipe or from package depending on settings
>> in a
>> configuration file. This could later be used to update an app to the
>> latest available version and maybe system wide updates. A bit like
>> Manager, but for the prompt. Perhaps the script could wrap tools like
>> DisableProgram and SymlinkProgram as well?
>> My question is: what should it be called?
>> git - GoboLinux Install Tool or perhaps gpm - GoboLinux Program Manager?
> I suggest you take a look at updating Freshen rather than working from
> scratch; it has many of those features. It is in Ruby rather than sh,
> though, so it's probably not suitable for being at the very base level
> of the system.
>
I have totally forgotten about Freshen (I have never used it). It looks
like it has some of the functions I'm looking for, so that's a start. Otoh
Ruby is not my cup of coffee. Maybe the tool I'm looking for could
(should) wrap freshen as well, for system updates?
That's possible, although I suspect the system update part will need
some work before it functions again (things have changed since I wrote
it). It does have useful algorithms and such that you could implement
in whatever you are using. I suggest that not be shell, though,
because the performance will be abysmal (the first version of Freshen
was perl+ls/find, it takes an age).
Extending Freshen to add those features shouldn't be a difficult task
if anyone does want to, a matter of a few dozen lines I should think.
-Michael
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