One other thing that just hit me as I was starting a test. We could make a bit better use of the 'make install' stuff to get the most basic things installed/bootstrapped.
Since, users are strongly encouraged to logout/login after the 'make install' step. We have them starting a new shell too! :)
We could get a very basic set of stuff installed at this point, and could add necessary hooks to remove it via the 'make clean' if desired.
Something like:
- Detect distro
- Install DepMan/PackMan
- Install recommended "concrete" module for DepMan/PackMan based on distro
(which could be overriden by a configure flag,
e.g. --with-{depman,packman}-concrete)
- Switcher/Modules (not all the core-pkg modules, just Switcher/Modules)
- etc.Basically this moves some of the bootstrap logic out of the share/prereq area and into the configure/build/install area...might not be a great idea since we've been beefing about issues with that lately?
Food for thought? --tjn
_________________________________________________________________________ Thomas Naughton [EMAIL PROTECTED] Research Associate (865) 576-4184
On Thu, 28 Apr 2005, Jeff Squyres wrote:
On Apr 27, 2005, at 9:52 PM, Thomas Naughton wrote:
Couple comments: I believe there is also a "chicken-and-egg" problem with
some of these "distribution agnostic pkg-mgmt-system" helper routines that
may be necessary just to get PackMan/DepMan installed (possibly a few other prereqs).
So, it might make since to have a bootstrap area that does the most base setup to get DepMan/PackMan tools setup.
I also see that there are some issues with naming differences among
distributions. This bootstrap area could do the appropriate lookups to get prereq names (and ordering).
Excellent points... someone write all the stuff down from this thread...
(I nominate Geoffroy!)
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