Re: up2date - something for NetBSD?

[iMil <imil%home.imil.net@localhost>]

> pkgpm is incomplete, e.g. it doesn't download pkg_summary and doesn't do
> actual install/upgrade of packages, currently it only shows differences
> everything vs. everything. It also implement "registering" packages,
> i.e. marking them as REALLY needed.

well I guess it's time for me to unveil the curtains :)

As Jeremy said, I'm actually working on an apt-get like tool, handling 
at least install, upgrade and delete. The tool, called pkg_dry, fetches
pkg_summary(5) to build a SQLite database, containing packages list, 
dependencies, and -for now- a little subset of information like COMMENT 
and such. It uses pkg_info -Xa to generate a "local" pkg_summary(5).
It is _not_ finished yet, so I rarely mentionned it, but I have now 
promising results as the engine seems to work correctly. I still have to 
implement some things, such as the installation itself ;)

Here is an example on how it works (I tried to mimic some of apt-get 
functions) :

[~/src/pkg_dry] time ./pkg_dry -u 
ftp://ftp.fr.netbsd.org/pub/pkgsrc/packages/NetBSD/i386/5.0/All
processing local summary...
downloading summary...
processing remote summary...
updating database: 100%

real    0m12.376s
user    0m8.877s
sys     0m0.335s

[~/src/pkg_dry] ./pkg_dry -d eterm
direct dependencies for eterm
        perl>=5.0
        libast>=0.6.1nb3
        imlib2>=1.2.0nb5

[~/src/pkg_dry] ./pkg_dry -f eterm
full dependency tree for eterm
        tiff>=3.7.2nb1
        png>=1.2.9nb2
        libungif>=4.1.3nb1
        libltdl>=1.5.10
        jpeg>=6bnb2
        pcre>=6.2
        perl>=5.0
        libast>=0.6.1nb3
        imlib2>=1.2.0nb5

[~/src/pkg_dry] ./pkg_dry -r jpeg
10 packages to delete: jasper netpbm tiff ImageMagick lcms netbsd-www 
xplanet libpuzzle gd jpeg
proceed ? [y/N]

[~/src/pkg_dry] ./pkg_dry -i gnome-terminal
nothing to upgrade.
38 packages to be installed: GConf lzo libcfg+ opencdk gnutls gnome-dirs 
gnome-vfs gnome2-dirs shared-mime-info gtk2+ atk libglade esound libgnome 
pciids libvolume_id hal-info usbids policykit libtasn1 hal libaudiofile 
gnome-keyring libIDL ORBit2 dbus dbus-glib libbonobo libart libbonoboui 
popt libgnomecanvas libgnomeui getopt startup-notification rarian vte 
gnome-terminal
proceed ? [y/N]

Anyone wanting to have a look at the source code can browse it here: 
http://cvs.gcu.info/viewvc.py/pkg_dry/ but be warned that some parts are 
still temporary.

And of course, comments are always welcome.

Regards,

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Emile "iMil" Heitor <imil%home.imil.net@localhost>                              
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