Build Tools Initial To Do
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Build Tools
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04 October 2002
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Submitted By :
Chris Coleman
Jordan K Hubbard writes:
"If you guys are looking for "first projects", I would suggest:
1. Get all the ports working on FreeBSD. Most do, but some like
+postgres will require FreeBSD-specific patches.
2. Add a procedure to portpackage.tcl which builds FreeBSD .tgz
packages and add a type-switch for it.
That will take you very close to having this "just work" on FreeBSD at
least.
The deltas for OtherBSD should be small. "
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OP adopts the OpenDarwin
build tools.
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Build Tools
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04 October 2002
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Submitted By :
Chris Coleman
Open Packages has adopted the darwin ports build tools for its
infrastructure. The tools were just imported and we did a lot of CVS
re-arranging. So, update your CVS checkout (you may need to remove it
first) and jump in and help.
( Link )
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Pending upgrade of .mk
files and pkg* tools
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Boot Strap Tools
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27 September 2002
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Submitted By :
Harlan Stenn
We're about to upgrade the .mk files and pkg* tools to the current
versions used by NetBSD.
Helpers wanted...
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Milestone 2 Released
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Milestone 2 Released
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31 July 2001
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Submitted By :
Will Andrews
Milestone 2 has been rolled and released! Check out the URL and
download
op-0.2.tar.gz and optionally verify the integrity. To try out
OpenPackages
Milestone 2 (Release 0.2), untar the tarball then in op/tools run the
"sandboxtest" script. Report any success or problems to the
mailing list.
A huge amount of work went into this release in the last month. I'm
proud
of the group that got together and finally put together something a
large
number of people can use. Check out the SUPPORT listing at
ftp://ftp.openpackages.org/op/SUPPORT to see what works.
AIX should work, but doesn't currently due to some issues. It's being
worked on at the moment.
( Link )
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Milestone 2 Date Set
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28 July 2001
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Submitted By :
Will Andrews
Milestone 2 is right around the corner. The developers have agreed to
the release date of July 31, in which OpenPackages will be able to
bootstrap and compile a sample package in a sandbox on various UNIX
platforms, including FreeBSD 2.x/3.x/4.x/5.x, OpenBSD, NetBSD, HP/UX,
Solaris, AIX, and possibly Linux, OSF1, and IRIX, on platforms ranging
from i386
to hppa to powerpc to ia64 to sparc64. Stay tuned...
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Progress on Milestone #2
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PKG_TOOLS
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06 July 2001
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Submitted By :
Chris Coleman
We have been making
progress on Milestone #2. I just committed a patch that allows Mac OS X
to compile the existing pkg_tools.
Right now the sysem
works on NetBSD and FreeBSD. I have a to figure out an elegant way to
patch two small bugs and it will be working for Mac OS X. Harlan is
working on porting the system to HPUX as well as getting the whole tools
directory to bootstrap more cleanly.
Will Andrews is
working on porting Fake and Flavors from OpenBSD. If anyone else wishes
to pitch in, drop me a line.
Click the link to read the commit
message.
( Link )
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Package Directory Layout
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Organization of packages
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06 June 2001
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Submitted By :
Chris Coleman
Harlan began a thread trying to figure out how the directory structure
will become and many peolple have chimed in on how it should look.
There appear to be two schools of
thought. Organize it Alphabetically, or Catagorically. Some are even
suggesting how we could do both.
Click the link to follow the e-mail
thread.
( Link )
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OP Project Goals
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Project Goals
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05 June 2001
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Submitted By :
Chris Coleman
Will Andrews asked the question: "What do we want out of this project?"
and gave a few answers:
Things Will would like to see
happen:
- make(1) and pkg_*(1) tools
centralized to one repository shared by
the representative BSD's, and made as portable as possible to allow
other operating systems to use OP without too much hassle (read: easy
bootstrapping).
- pkg_*(1) tools redesigned somewhat for additional flexibility
as I
described in a previous email. Things that really need to be added
or improved on in the packaging system: library-ifying, network-wide
databases for easy network management, extended configurability to
make life easier both for developers and users, a fluid mechanism for
signing and verifying packages, clean mechanisms for handling
relationships between packages, clean upgrade mechanisms, and so on.
- Unified pkgsrc system: all pkgs in one centralized repository.
This
will allow for security audits to become effective across all
OP-supported operating systems. Modify makefile core to make the
packaging side of it as abstract as possible to allow other packaging
systems to use the result of pkg builds, to improve vastly on
portability.
Click the Link to follow the e-mail
thread.
( Link )
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Mac OS X Fink
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05 June 2001
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Submitted By :
jcs
Fink seems to be a similar effort on Mac OS X to Open Packages. Maybe
something the OP effort should be involved with?
( Link )
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Reaching Milestone 2
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OP Tools
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01 June 2001
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Submitted By :
Chris Coleman
To reach Milestone #2, we need to test the existing package tools and
make sure they build on FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, Darwin, and BSD/OS.
People are welcome to test them on other platforms and send patches.
I have made a tarball of the
current sources
available so people can test this on various systems.
I just tried this on FreeBSD 4.2 so
I know that works. Please let me know how the rest of the systems go
so I can cross them off my list.
( Link )
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Fetch VS Wget
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30 May 2001
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Submitted By :
Brook Schofield
With the unanimous chorus of "anything is better than FTP" a debate has
raged that fetch used primarily for FreeBSD's Ports collection
should be used as the file transfer subsystem for OpenPackages. Due to
the
portability problems of fetch there was a suggestion to use
wget (which is more portable than the fetch code but
GPL
licensed). curl
which is regarded as
portable code could be a replacement to fetch since it is both
BSD-licensed and provides a library libcurl.
Any
thoughs?.
( Link )
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Milestone #1
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OP
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29 March 2001
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Submitted By :
Chris Coleman
I just imported the zsh package into the tree and it builds using the
latest op-make and package tools. This means that there is actually
something in the CVS tree that you can download and try out.
Now we are focusing our attention
on porting this minimal package set to all our target OSes. I expect
rapid progress on this phase of the project. Feel free to port this to
your favorite OS and submit patches.
If you haven't checked out what's
in CVS, now is the time to do it. Please test out what is there and
post comments so we know what is working. If it needs fixing, send a
patch instead.
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How do we handle
differences in make(1) on different OSes?
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Make
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22 March 2001
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Submitted By :
Chris Coleman
Hubert Feyrer has pointed out that the ODE make modifiers currently in
NetBSD's make conflict with the make modifiers that would be important
to OpenPackages - particularly :L and :U. Marc Espie suggested adding a
feature to make(1) to allow it to use different interpretations with a
switch.
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Core Compression Format
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Archivers
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22 March 2001
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Submitted By :
Chris Coleman
The File Compression format for OP has been in discussion. It has been
asked whether or not to use ZIP as the native format for OP. So far the
discussion seems to favor .TGZ and BZIP2 ala .TBZ for use as the
natively supported formats.
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OP CVS Directory Layout
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CVS
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22 March 2001
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Submitted By :
Chris Coleman
The CVS repository has been setup and the repository is at
cvs.openpackages.o
rg/cvs. The only directory currently in existence is 'www'.
We need to decide on the layout for the rest of the project. Should
the main
project module be called 'op', 'opkg', or something else? Should there
be a se
parate module for tools that we expect to be integrated into the base OS
of syst
ems using OpenPackages to be used by projects that don't have the
package tools,
ie some dists of Linux. (or will it be bundled in the OP source tree.)
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