29 Jan
2006
29 Jan
'06
4:15 p.m.
I was thinking of a system that was ROS independent, ie can be used on
other windows compatable platforms. I was also thinking of using an XML
format that was already out there.
This (http://www.reactos.org/wiki/index.php/ReactOS_Package_Manager) was
not really what had in mind; although, it is a good start.
I'm thinking of putting my design ideas up on wiki so you can look at them.
David Hinz wrote:
I personally would prefer a compression that uses
solid archives,
nobody needs to just extract one file, we need them all. Maybe we can
create a new container format, that includes the dependencies of the
package at a specified position at the beginning of the file and then
the compressed archive.
I'm thinking of a xml based package, it would look a bit like this:
<rospckg version="1.0">
<head>
<package>ReactOS-base</package>
<version>0.3.0</version>
<dependencies>
<+ package="freeldr"> //this package is required
<minver>1.0</minver> //it has to be at least this version
<maxver>1.2.1</maxver> //any version higher than this one is
not allowed
<notver>1.0.1b;1.2.0.3d;1.1.1-badver</notver> //these
versions are not allowed
</+>
<- package="ntldr"> //there is a conflict, these two packages
can't be installed at the same time
<exceptver>2.0.1-ros</exceptver> //but this one IS allowed
</->
</dependencies>
<description>
<shortdesc>This is one sentence about this app</shortdesc>
<extdesc>Put the long description here, there is no
limit...</extdesc>
</description>
</head>
<archives>
<install base="%SYSTEMROOT%" type="7zip">
Here will be one compressed archive that will be unzipped to
%SYSTEMROOT%
</install>
<install base="%WHATEVER%" type="tar"
And a tar archive...
</install>
<script type="registry">
Some registry values...
</script>
<script type="batch">
and a batchfile...
</script>
</archives>
</rospckg>
Greets,
David Hinz
Maarten Bosma schrieb:
I did already make the effort to create a package
manager. The idea
was to maintain only scripts which tell where to download the program
and how to install it. So we do not have to waste our bandwidth for it.
Here are some informations:
http://www.reactos.org/wiki/index.php/ReactOS_Package_Manager
But we can drop if come up with something better.
Maarten Bosma
Mike Swanson schrieb:
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The default for 7-Zip is to make a "solid
archive"-The concept that
is pretty natural to Unix-like OSes (similar to making a tar of
files and compressing it). It allows for _much_ better compression
than a non-solid archive. A non-solid archive just compresses each
file individually and wraps them up into a single file (like what
Zip does).
On Saturday 28 January 2006 22:26, Kai Moonbourn wrote:
> 7zip gives me a lot of problems when I want to extract archives of any
> appreciable size; it's impossible to extract a single file(with any
> client
> I've tested) without parsing through the entire archive, which can
> immensely increase the amount of time to access even a trivially small
> file.
>
> On 1/28/06, Jerry <crashfourit(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I could add diferent compression formats, like tgz, zip, bz2 to the
>> installer.
>>
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