[ros-dev] New Setup system

Mon Jan 30 11:31:13 CET 2006

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 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> I could add diferent compression formats, like tgz, zip, bz2 to the
>>>> installer.
>>>>
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