On Tue, 2 Sep 2003 16:01:53 +0200 Johannes Winkelmann <jw@tks6.net> wrote:
Hey there,
Hi Johannes, [cut]
As we currently have some ports with post-install scripts, I decided to offer a simple solution which might be removed once there's a better way to do it (e.g. in pkgutils). The current implementation is meant to simplify installation of large suites of packages like gnome or kde.
This is great. I always felt that there was something missing in the current way CRUX handle packages installation. During last discussion on old CLC mailing list (or was it the CRUX ml?) I ended up (after a brief analysis of ports with needed some pre-post install funcion) thinking that I'd prefer to do the stuff manually for most of them. From another point of view it would be very useful to have PPIS (Pre-Post-Install Scripts [TM]) in some case.(exp. Gnome). With the great tools we have now (prt-get+pkgtools) I think that making a great distro is a consequence of having great packagers, that is how we use such tools. If the prt-get addons are appreciated among packagers, a good start could be a specification of what to include in PPIS and what not to. Regarding your mention to pkgutils and "possible better way to do it", I personally prefer to leave the base work to pkgtools and implement the fancy add-ons into 3rd party utils (prt-get). [cut]
Testing from interested packagers is very much appreciated!
I'll definitly test the patch and do every kind of nasty experiment ;) Again I realized that I replied to your post with --verbose-mode-on, please bear with me. I see CRUX & CLC getting better and better everyday, and we're now discussing about the few shortcomings I could ever find in the distro..that is really exciting!
Kind regards, Johannes
Regards, Simone