From krijg954 at planet.nl Tue Apr 1 09:24:16 2008 From: krijg954 at planet.nl (Marcin Koziuk) Date: Tue, 01 Apr 2008 15:24:16 +0200 Subject: [Poly-p-ux] /dev/one patch In-Reply-To: <200803311646.05894.polypolyman@ibiblio.org> References: <200803311646.05894.polypolyman@ibiblio.org> Message-ID: <1207056256.3451.10.camel@debian.lan> On Mon, 2008-03-31 at 16:46 -0400, Poly-p man wrote: > Hi, all. Attached is the /dev/one patch, untested by me at least, correctly > formatted for kernel patching. I will be including this in the 586 version of > poly-p-ux coming up, and will include it in all releases beyond this. > > However, I was thinking that this could be sent to the kernel devs for > possible inclusion. So, FreeBSoD (the actual author of this, who is among us > right now), if you would like to send it to them (after I test it real > quick), that would be great, if you would like me to send it to them, that > would be great too, I'd be sure to add your name in the "from:" line (see > http://www.zipworld.com.au/%7Eakpm/linux/patches/stuff/tpp.txt ). > > To the rest of you, have fun with it (patches correctly against 2.6.24.4, I'm > testing to make sure it works), and feedback would be nice. > > poly-p man Yeah, I'll ask the guys on the linux kernel mailing lists. ?On Mon, 2008-03-31 at 20:38 -0400, Poly-p man wrote: > Good news - I just finished the base tarball for 586 - and I'll be > releasing > probably tomorrow - I have some major homework tonight. > > And /dev/one works, just fine! I'm glad to hear it works ;) - Marcin (aka FreeBSoD) From dforsythe at gmail.com Wed Apr 9 10:52:57 2008 From: dforsythe at gmail.com (David Forsythe) Date: Wed, 9 Apr 2008 10:52:57 -0400 Subject: [Poly-p-ux] I'm writing you a package manager Message-ID: So, I'm (ha1f) bored as all hell and I decided I'd write you a very simple package manager. I'm hoping to have it usable in the next two weeks because it's going to be extremely minimal and simple. My goal isn't to make it particularly fast, but rather to keep whatever doesn't need to be on the disk off of it. Basically here's the plan: - Single file holds information about where to fetch package listings. - Package listings will themselves be text files. Ideally, you can even host them on you ibiblio site because they shouldn't ever get too heavy. They're fetched when needed by the package manager and deleted after the run unless told other wise. The listing will hold package names, revision numbers (those are set by the list maintainer), download links for files, and then links to a single script which can do things like fetch and apply patches. So, for instance if you want nethack, the package manager would grab the listing, find nethack, grab nethack (hopefully hosted by the nethack peoples), grab the script, then act. Obviously, this is compile centric, which I probably not ideal, so I might add an entry for a binary link that can be used if the end user so desires. - Basic functionality is all it needs, so add and remove will be in there of course. I'm not sure about update, but there will definitely be a way to check for out of date packages. - It should extensible with shell scripts, so adding features won't require hacking and rebuilding C code. That's all I have right now, it's really just like super light pkgsrc. -- David Forsythe -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.ibiblio.org/pipermail/poly-p-ux/attachments/20080409/e065a009/attachment.html From polypolyman at ibiblio.org Wed Apr 9 15:20:48 2008 From: polypolyman at ibiblio.org (Poly-p man) Date: Wed, 9 Apr 2008 15:20:48 -0400 Subject: [Poly-p-ux] I'm writing you a package manager Message-ID: <200804091520.48249.polypolyman@ibiblio.org> Sweet! If you can implement a few improvements over what I have, that would be great. Basically, a few things I want: Right now, two packages with similar names won't work. Take fortune - if the main program were "fortune", then any package with "fortune" in the name would be renamed. Currently, it is "fortune6", and I also have "fortunes-good" and "fortunes-off", which works, but if it were "fortune", "fortunes-good" and "fortunes-off" wouldn't work. Also, having some sort of revdep-rebuild would be nice - currently, uninstalling packages could be harmful if other things depend on them. A few things to remember: 1. Low memory usage. These systems are old. 2. Don't assume network/internet, though if you added it as an extra feature, it would be nice. 3. It must match or improve upon the current snailage scripts. Thanks, poly-p man From dforsythe at gmail.com Wed Apr 9 16:29:38 2008 From: dforsythe at gmail.com (David Forsythe) Date: Wed, 9 Apr 2008 16:29:38 -0400 Subject: [Poly-p-ux] I'm writing you a package manager In-Reply-To: <200804091520.48249.polypolyman@ibiblio.org> References: <200804091520.48249.polypolyman@ibiblio.org> Message-ID: Dropping this to the list. Sorry about that, I'm not very awake right now... Seems reasonable. Send me the current scripts you're using so I can with make them an extension or base the entire manager off of them. On Wed, Apr 9, 2008 at 3:20 PM, Poly-p man wrote: > Sweet! If you can implement a few improvements over what I have, that > would be > great. Basically, a few things I want: > > Right now, two packages with similar names won't work. Take fortune - if > the > main program were "fortune", then any package with "fortune" in the name > would be renamed. Currently, it is "fortune6", and I also > have "fortunes-good" and "fortunes-off", which works, but if it > were "fortune", "fortunes-good" and "fortunes-off" wouldn't work. > > Also, having some sort of revdep-rebuild would be nice - currently, > uninstalling packages could be harmful if other things depend on them. > > A few things to remember: > > 1. Low memory usage. These systems are old. > > 2. Don't assume network/internet, though if you added it as an extra > feature, > it would be nice. > > 3. It must match or improve upon the current snailage scripts. > > Thanks, > poly-p man > _______________________________________________ > Poly-p-ux mailing list > Poly-p-ux at lists.ibiblio.org > http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/poly-p-ux > -- David Forsythe -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.ibiblio.org/pipermail/poly-p-ux/attachments/20080409/7674d424/attachment.html From dforsythe at gmail.com Sat Apr 12 02:35:04 2008 From: dforsythe at gmail.com (David Forsythe) Date: Sat, 12 Apr 2008 02:35:04 -0400 Subject: [Poly-p-ux] I'm writing you a package manager In-Reply-To: References: <200804091520.48249.polypolyman@ibiblio.org> Message-ID: Actually, looking at these scripts, it looks like rewriting this stuff in C will add nothing but bloat. I may patch these scripts or consolidate them, but the motivation needs to be there. We'll see what happens in the coming weeks. On Wed, Apr 9, 2008 at 4:29 PM, David Forsythe wrote: > Dropping this to the list. Sorry about that, I'm not very awake right > now... > > > > Seems reasonable. Send me the current scripts you're using so I can with > make them an extension or base the entire manager off of them. > > > On Wed, Apr 9, 2008 at 3:20 PM, Poly-p man > wrote: > > > Sweet! If you can implement a few improvements over what I have, that > > would be > > great. Basically, a few things I want: > > > > Right now, two packages with similar names won't work. Take fortune - if > > the > > main program were "fortune", then any package with "fortune" in the name > > would be renamed. Currently, it is "fortune6", and I also > > have "fortunes-good" and "fortunes-off", which works, but if it > > were "fortune", "fortunes-good" and "fortunes-off" wouldn't work. > > > > Also, having some sort of revdep-rebuild would be nice - currently, > > uninstalling packages could be harmful if other things depend on them. > > > > A few things to remember: > > > > 1. Low memory usage. These systems are old. > > > > 2. Don't assume network/internet, though if you added it as an extra > > feature, > > it would be nice. > > > > 3. It must match or improve upon the current snailage scripts. > > > > Thanks, > > poly-p man > > _______________________________________________ > > Poly-p-ux mailing list > > Poly-p-ux at lists.ibiblio.org > > http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/poly-p-ux > > > > > > -- > David Forsythe -- David Forsythe -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.ibiblio.org/pipermail/poly-p-ux/attachments/20080412/f749873f/attachment.html