Re: [leaf-devel] package format/structure

2004-02-15 Thread Erich Titl
Eric At 19:16 13.02.2004 +0100, Eric Spakman wrote: ... This isn't always a solution. Some programs change config structures from time to time, changing keywords or config file names. Having them split can give strange problems. True, like I said, it's the ultimate challenge. A mature product _sh

Re: [leaf-devel] package format/structure

2004-02-13 Thread Eric Spakman
> Martin > > At 22:49 10.02.2004 +0100, Martin Hejl wrote: > >It would (and hopefully will) be - but unless I completely misunderstood what > >they're working on, it doesn't adress all the aspects of updating packages (and I > >don't think it should either). > > > >So yes, the new config system

Re: [leaf-devel] package format/structure

2004-02-11 Thread Erich Titl
Martin At 22:49 10.02.2004 +0100, Martin Hejl wrote: >It would (and hopefully will) be - but unless I completely misunderstood what they're >working on, it doesn't adress all the aspects of updating packages (and I don't think >it should either). > >So yes, the new config system should make thin

Re: [leaf-devel] package format/structure

2004-02-10 Thread Martin Hejl
Hi Erich, Erich Titl wrote: If anybody has some great ideas, I'd love to hear them (anything I could come up with, like extracting the packages in /tmp and replacing everything but the files mentioned in the packagename.conf file sounded like a dirty hack to me, especially since it may cause p

Re: [leaf-devel] package format/structure

2004-02-10 Thread Erich Titl
Martin At 22:08 10.02.2004, Martin Hejl wrote: ..The last one caught my eye - since one of the things LEAF surely is lacking is a mechanism for updating packages (I guess the recent discussion about Smoothwall made that clear too). Unfortunately, luau doesn't seem like an option to us (at first

Re: [leaf-devel] package format/structure

2004-02-10 Thread Martin Hejl
Hi Mike, Mike Noyes wrote: Everyone, Here are some package links you may find interesting. Building A Better Package Manager http://www.madpenguin.org/Article930.html autopackage http://www.autopackage.org/ Luau: The Lib Update/AutoUpdate S

[leaf-devel] package format/structure

2004-02-10 Thread Mike Noyes
Everyone, Here are some package links you may find interesting. Building A Better Package Manager http://www.madpenguin.org/Article930.html autopackage http://www.autopackage.org/ Luau: The Lib Update/AutoUpdate Suite http://luau.so