Re: [Helidelinux-devel] Package manager

[Rolf V. <rol...@he...>]

Hui Zhou wrote:

> What is generally expected for a package manager?
> 
> The minimum I believe is just install and uninstall.
> 
> I would like to see a picture how it works: Given the package manager
> name PKG, the basic function would be:
> 
> PKG -i name
> PKG -u name
> 
> maybe
>  PKG -q name (querying the package info)

Control:

   PKG -c <start|stop|status> name

Configuration:

   PKG -d name	Return configuration (in OGDL)
   PKG -e expression name
                 Modify configuration

List:

   PKG -l pattern
                 List installed packages

Additional operations:

   PKG --target name
                 Execute a task defined in a
                 targets.g file.

This refers to binary packages. Sources have a
different life cycle.

Rolf.