ports and PBIs
Julian Elischer
julian at elischer.org
Tue May 4 18:41:14 UTC 2010
On 5/4/10 1:26 AM, Reinhard Haller wrote:
> The goal of PBIs as Julian proposed is to simplify the automatic
> generation of simple apps.
well, it's to make some working apps available, that don't interfere
with other working apps.
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> To achieve this goal we get another ports management application and
> hope it handles also the non trivial tasks of the non simple apps.
there is a PBI helper app. but PBIs are actually executables with the
installation app built in.
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> If the PBIs come with all libraries and resources we get even more
> problems with multiple db installations not less.
not that's the whole point. The app has it's own linraries HIDDEN
within itself.
it can not interfere with other apps.
(except in a port-number manner) but generally
apps for which PBIs are good do not do that sort of thing.
I would imagine a base system with useful utilities installed by PBI,
(so the keep working) and all the development apps and libraries
installed by ports/packages. that way your system keeps working, no
matter how you screw up your fancy development setup.
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> Are configuration dependencies (exim with or without ldap) addressed
> with the PBI format?
not usually but if you can make your own...
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> I believe we need a more precise way to express the dependencies between
> the ports.
well there is a GSOC project that hopes to do that.
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> Reinhard
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