From: UnixOS2 Archive To: "UnixOS2 Archive" Date: Wed, 6 Nov 2002 04:40:40 EST-10EDT,10,-1,0,7200,3,-1,0,7200,3600 Subject: [UnixOS2_Archive] No. 364 ************************************************** Tuesday 05 November 2002 Number 364 ************************************************** Subjects for today 1 Re: installpkg : Michael Zolk 2 OT: Lookout (was Re: New OpenSSH for OS/2) : Adrian Gschwend" 3 Re: New OpenSSH for OS/2 : Voytek Eymont **= Email 1 ==========================** Date: Wed, 6 Nov 2002 10:32:25 +0100 From: Michael Zolk Subject: Re: installpkg On Mon, Nov 04, 2002 at 11:24:37PM +0100, Andreas Buening wrote: > Hello! > > Is installpkd.cmd still supposed to be our package installation > program? If yes, is there a maintainer of it? I couldn't find > any email address. I guess this would be me :) Have you seen the latest version I uploaded recently? I tried to change the directory structure to comply with the FHS. I also added a manpage where I tried to describe the various keywords in the PKGINFO files. > I think we'll need some upgrades to this program. > > 1) installation log files should be placed into /var/lib/unixos2 > instead of /var/log. I guess, /var/log is for logfiles of > programs like apache which you can "rm -fR" if you're low on > disk space. After having reread the FHS I think you are right. > 2) An additional keyword SCRIPTFILE that indicates that this file > is a shell script whose 1st line "#!/bin/foo" has to be changed > by an absolute path name "#!x:/bin/foo" at installation time. > > 3) Yet another additional keyword SCRIPTFILE2 that indicates that > this file contains a lot of path names like "/usr/somewhere" > that have to be replaced by "x:/usr/somewhere" at installation > time. I think these are tasks for some sort of post-install script, not for installpkg. I'd like to keep installpkg relatively small. One idea would be to include scripts or small exes in the ux2_base pkg that perform these common tasks like replacing/adding drive letters, creating desktop objects, modifying configuration files. They could then be called from the post-install script without the package maintainers having to reinvent the wheel every time. > 4) Support for the installation of large archives (hundreds of files). > The current keyword "FILE dir/file" runs "unzip ... dir/file" > which is a) very slow for huge numbers of files, b) very hard > to maintain because you need hundreds of those FILE entries in > your PKGINFO file. Maybe something like > "unzip ... * -x exclude_list" might be considerable. I did it this way because it should be easier to handle locked files or other errors this way. Michael **= Email 2 ==========================** Date: Wed, 06 Nov 2002 15:04:34 +0100 (CET) From: "Adrian Gschwend" Subject: OT: Lookout (was Re: New OpenSSH for OS/2) On Wed, 6 Nov 2002 21:19:27, Voytek Eymont wrote: >the lookout project seems interesting..... it is, I know the project for a long time now (it first appeared two years ago at WSE back then). The developer is on this list as well btw (at least AFAIK). Public alpha will be released in a few days, as well as full sourcecode. cu Adrian -- Adrian Gschwend at netlabs.org ktk [a t] netlabs.org ------- Free Software for OS/2 and eCS http://www.netlabs.org **= Email 3 ==========================** Date: Wed, 6 Nov 2002 21:19:27 From: Voytek Eymont Subject: Re: New OpenSSH for OS/2 ** Reply to note from John Poltorak Tue, 5 Nov 2002 13:57:43 +0000 > http://www.os2bbs.com/os2news > This is an excellent place for news, so remember to check it out every > week. hmm, yes, it is. the lookout project seems interesting..... Voytek Eymont SBT Information Systems Pty Ltd http://www.sbt.net.au/links/ phone +61-2 9310-1144 fax +61-2 9310-1118