On Fri, Sep 3, 2010 at 9:12 AM, steve donovan <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 2, 2010 at 12:33 PM, Andre Carregal <[email protected]> wrote:
>> somewhat of an overload of the verb show. For me at least, "show"
>> would be better used for things that are available locally, while
>> "query" (or something similar) would fit better for things that are
>> not "here".
>
> I suppose I have been getting used to 'aptitude show'.  So the next
> question would be, do people want a query command?
>
> It would do a search on the remote repo(s), grab the rockspec and
> extract the basic information. It may find enough information to
> present the modules defined by the package, although not always (e.g.
> if the install is done by a makefile)
>
> (Hisham, how does LR know how to populate the modules fields in the
> local manifest in this case?)

LuaRocks 2 still installs modules inside their own prefix (e.g. "make
install DESTDIR=/usr/local/lib/luarocks/rocks/luasocket/2.0.2-1/") ,
just like LuaRocks 1 did. It moves modules out of the rock directory
and into the common module path (e.g. /usr/local/share/lua/5.1 and
/usr/local/lib/lua/5.1) after "make install".

I'm not sure what would be the ideal workflow to get module
information for these rocks available in the remote repo, keeping in
mind I can review rockspecs but I can't actually run and install them
all, due to external dependencies.

Perhaps we come up with a way to make it easy for contributors to
share the rockspec they wrote plus the automatically generated
rock_manifest file for their rock.

-- Hisham

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