Re: [Helidelinux-devel] Package manager

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

Hui Zhou wrote:

>>Control:
>>
>>  PKG -c <start|stop|status> name
> 
> For services?

Yes.

> 
>>Configuration:
>>
>>  PKG -d name	Return configuration (in OGDL)
>>  PKG -e expression name
>>                Modify configuration
> 
> A specific example?

PKG -d apache
could return http_conf.g

PKG -e "DocumentRoot = /var/www2" apache
would change that attribute.

>>Additional operations:
>>
>>  PKG --target name
>>                Execute a task defined in a
>>                targets.g file.
> 
> A specific example?

You do not know in advance what functions a package
will need, besides some standard ones. It is easy
to supply a file with embedded scripts (or a directory
with scripts) for each package that needs extra functions.
For example, a package named pop3d wants to specify a
function that permits to print a summary of disk usage:

pkg --summary pop3d

  > Before installation, deal with source packages, after installations
> deal with installed binary. But I think it can use binary packages
> also. The installation of a binary is simpler compared to source
> packages.

I'm leaning toward using the same tool but with different names and
different exposed functionality, 'pkg' and 'src'. The first one oriented
to package management in a running system, and the second oriented to
build a system.

Rolf.