From: ptkwt@...1.aracnet.com (Phil Tomson)
Date: 2002-11-04T12:39:30+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] rpkg - test release

In article <20021101095337.GA28428@prism.localnet>,
Massimiliano Mirra  <list@chromatic-harp.com> wrote:
>Just uploaded:
>
>    http://www.allruby.com/rpkg/rpkg-test.tar.gz
>
>
>>From the README:
>
>= How to use this
>
>This is a test release.  Some features are missing, other are fragile,
>all are in ferment.  I'm releasing it to bring rpkg development out of
>the dark and give to those who wish some code to chew on.  It mustn't
>be considered a dependable or mostly functional version.
>
>Unpack the tarball.  Put `rapt' in your binary search path.  Copy the
>`rpkg' and `archive' directories and the `stringio.rb' file into your
>$RUBYLIB search path, preferably where you don't need root privileges
>to write.
>
>This release does not touch your system directories and all testing is
>done in `rpkg/local' and `rpkg/remote'; the former represents your
>local filesystem, the latter everything that is accessed remotely
>(tarballs, package mirrors, metadata etc.).
>
>Please send reports, comments, patches, ideas to mmirra@libero.it.
>
>
>= A sample session
>
>This gives an overview of commands and options:
>
>    $ rapt -h
>
>Search for a package:
>
>    $ rapt search database
>    dbi - Uniform database access interface
>
>Show information about a package:
>
>    $ rapt show dbi
>    Package: dbi
>    Version: 0.0.18
>    Source: dbi
>    Architecture: all
>    Depends: mysql (>= 2.4.2)
>    Description: Uniform database access interface
>    Fetch:
>     rpkg://ruby/pool/dbi_0.0.18_all.rpk (81116,
>0567fd72b3763f4fb43de56faa841e77)
>
>Show information about the source that generates a package:
>
>    $ rapt showsrc dot
>    Package: rdoc
>    Version: cvs
>    Binary: rdoc, markup, dot
>    Architecture: all
>    Fetch:
>     rpkg://ruby/sources/rdoc-snap20021101.tar.gz (111132,
>851fd6f6a25c4c3229a5ea534bbb185d)
>     rpkg://ruby/pool/rdoc-cvs.mkr.tar.gz (1029,
>8aadfdcb7e7bd4279c4d877f57a59971)
>
>Install the package from source:
>    
>    $ rapt install dbi
>    Binary packages needed: mysql dbi
>    Source packages needed: mysql dbi
>    checking for mysql_query() in -lmysqlclient... yes
>    checking for mysql.h... no
>    checking for mysql/mysql.h... yes
>    creating Makefile
>    gcc -fPIC -g -O2 -fPIC  -I. -I/usr/lib/ruby/1.6/i386-linux -I.
>-I/usr/include -DHAVE_MYSQL_MYSQL_H   -I/usr/local/include -c -o mysql.o
>mysql.c
>    gcc -shared  -L/usr/local/lib -L/usr/lib  -o mysql.so mysql.o -L.
>-lruby -lmysqlclient -lc
>    Installing mysql
>    entering config phase...
>    config done.
>    entering setup phase...
>    setting #! line to "#!/usr/bin/ruby"
>    [...]
>    Installing dbi
>    
>As you can see, mysql (which dbi depends on) is fetched, built and
>installed first, and then dbi is installed.
>
>Install another package, this time from prebuilt packages:
>
>    $ rapt --binary install rdoc
>    Binary packages needed: dot markup rdoc
>    Installing dot
>    Installing markup
>    Installing rdoc
>
>Increase debug level to show something of what's happening under the
>hood:
>
>    $ rapt -d1 --binary install dot
>    Binary packages needed: dot
>    fetcher.rb:11:in `fetch' fetching rpkg://ruby/pool/dot_cvs_all.rpk
>to /home/bard/src/rpkg/local/tmp
>    fetcher.rb:42:in `fetch' resolving rpkg:// scheme, next log entry
>shows actual uri...
>    fetcher.rb:11:in `fetch' fetching
>file:///home/bard/lib/ruby/rpkg/remote/ruby/pool/dot_cvs_all.rpk to
>/home/bard/src/rpkg/local/tmp
>    package.rb:18:in `new' initializing a package object from
>/home/bard/src/rpkg/local/tmp/dot_cvs_all.rpk
>    package.rb:18:in `new' initializing a package object from
>/home/bard/src/rpkg/local/tmp/packages/dot
>    package.rb:58:in `install' Installing dot
>
>Cd to $RUBYLIB/rpkg/local and see what has been installed, then run clean.sh to
>clean directories again.
>
>Cd to $RUBYLIB/rpkg/remote, rename sources to sources.localmirror, and
>sources.remote to sources.  (This file is the same as the former,
>except that uptream tarballs are fetched from the original sites
>instead of the rpkg:// mirror.)
>
>Try to install from cvs:
>
>    $ rapt install rdoc
>    Binary packages needed: markup dot rdoc
>    Source packages needed: rdoc
>    cvs server: Updating rdoc
>    cvs server: Updating rdoc/contrib
>    cvs server: Updating rdoc/contrib/xslfo
>    [...]
>    cvs server: Updating rdoc/web/images
>    cvs server: Updating rdoc/web/rd
>    Installing rdoc
>    Installing markup
>    Installing dot
>
>

Massimiliano,

First off, Thanks for the code.

Second, there was a lot of talk at RubyConf about package management and 
the RAA.  I'm too tired right now to give a complete report, but rpkg came 
up in some discussions as a possible candidate.  It was a hot topic.

There will also be some news the RAA and mirroring soon (I hope) but I'll 
let someone else announced that.

Phil