Re: up2date - something for NetBSD?

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

Hi Jeremy, hi list,

> Will you abstract this so SQL is not needed?

not sure I understand the question. My fists experiments were done without 
an SQL backend, parsing / ordering were pretty fast on my devel-box 
(Athlon 1600+, 2GHz), but thinking about older architectures, I came to 
the thought that these operations could be very slow on a 8MB file 
(pkg_summary). So as pkg_dry now strongly depends on SQLite, I have no 
plans to abstract it. If this is an issue, it _could_ be done, as 
the database is only used to quickly fetch information and map them to 
SLISTs.

> Have it check for available or wrong PROVIDES/REQUIRES shared libraries
> as recorded in pkg_summary(5) before downloading packages? (Comparing
> currently installed and upcoming updates/installs.)

Yes, that will definitely be implemented. Right now it only handles 
CONFLICTS and DEPENDS.

> Have it check for available disk space as record in pkg_summary (SIZE_PKG
> + FILE_SIZE) before downloading packages? (If upgrading, subtracting old
> too.)

Yes, that's part of the checks I have to implement as soon as the "heart" 
of the tool works correctly.

> Be able to potentially use multiple package repositories (multiple
> pkg_summaries)?

Hmmm, that's an interesting point, I hadn't thought about it. This can be 
easily be done by merging pkg_summaries in the database.

> What does "dry" mean in your software name?

it's dry as "without pkgsrc" :)

> How can I checkout the source? (I assume I can point some tool to that
> URL, so I don't have to grab each file manually.)

cvs -d :pserver:anoncvs%cvs.gcu.info@localhost:/cvs login
passwd: anoncvs
cvs -d :pserver:anoncvs%cvs.gcu.info@localhost:/cvs co pkg_dry

Beware, the code is moving almost everyday (if not every hours sometimes), 
and many parts are still "for testing purpose only".

>  nroff -mandoc /usr/pkgsrc/wip/pkg_get/files/pkg_get.1 | less

great !

Thanks a lot for your contribution

regards

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