On Tue, Oct 5, 2010 at 2:55 AM, steve donovan <[email protected]>wrote:
> Hi all, > > It would be convenient to install multiple packages with one install > invocation. It helps when there are a lot of latencies involved in > grabbing the manifest etc - the same reason why apt-get and its > friends support this - it means that a person can go get a cup of > their preferred beverage while the system does its thing. > > I would like to canvas opinions before I try to implement this. One > thing which is _very_ important, is roll-back policy. If a package, > or one of its dependencies fails, then the current state of the system > must be very clear. So install should indicate precisely what it > managed to install, and what failed. > Please oh please make this happen. It would be a great addition. > Another feature that could be very useful is an error log file which > is generated by install. Otherwise people have to capture a lot of > output from their terminals which is awkward; they can then easily > submit the contents of the error log when reporting a problem. > Totally a great idea. > Of course, perhaps a more LuaRocks-y solution is to have meta-packages > which pull in a whole bunch of common packages as dependencies. This > could be used to deliver mini Lua distributions efficiently. > Can't this be done today? Just using the "dependencies"? If not we are going to need this functionality soon because we are trying to use LuaRocks to deploy versioned copies of our software to many users PC's at work. We thought that this was already supported so that the user just had to run one command. -- Regards, Ryan
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