Re: Anything to do?

[Gianluca Guida]

Hi all,

On 7/19/05, Luis F. Araujo <address@hidden> wrote:
> Andrew Resch wrote:
> >Packager Manager - we need to figure out what a GNU package will look
> >like.. I believe Alfred probably has some sort of idea about that as it
> >ties into the GSC I believe.  Maybe we could use apt to install the
> >packages?
> >
> >
> >
> No apt.
> According to some emails in the archive, the idea is to use stow until
> stowfs is written. But that's the package manager, what about the
> package builder?

A first working version  for stowfs exists already, and it's part of
current unionfs CVS at hurdextras.
Actually there's still some design issue between Alfred and me on how
we should check for dependency when installing packages (by copying
them to stowfs). Simply staten, Alfred's position is to implement
dependency checking and solving as a part of the stowfs itself, while
I like more the idea of having a separate translator or script or
wathever to deal with this.
AFAIK, this stowfs hasn't still be used in the GSC because I haven't
finished the writing support for unionfs in a proper way, so helping
with stowfs/unionfs would be a good thing.

Hope this helps to help,
Gianluca

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