Re: [Helidelinux-devel] Package manager

[Hui Z. <zh...@wa...>]

On Tue, Mar 16, 2004 at 08:32:10PM +0000, Bennett Todd wrote:
> I'm planning on tackling it when I add dependency management to bpm,
> by ensuring that the build script fragment is run under something
> like "strace -f -eexecve -efile" or thereabouts, and including build
> dependancies on every package containing any file referenced in the
> strace output. The result won't be true build dependancies (which I
> can't think of any way of robustly automating); e.g. a lot of
> packages on my build system will come up with dependencies against
> coreutils and bash, that would be satisfied as well by Busybox.
> Instead, the dependancies I'll compute will (a) document _exactly_
> how the package was built, for reproduceability, and (b) be useful
> for offering suggestions about what might help if a rebuild attempt
> fails.
I am thinking that some dependency such as bash and libc are just so
coomon, is it worth listing them at all.

Here is an idea: always bundle some essential packages together and
offer as a base system, thus many packages' dependency may
automatically be solved. 

One may prepare a few different flavored base packages so user have
choices. The base packages also can't be uninstalled but upgraded.

-Hui Zhou