30 Jan
2006
30 Jan
'06
10:31 a.m.
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:
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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