Interactive tool for installing packages

[Marin Atanasov Nikolov]

On Tue, Nov 9, 2010 at 10:59 PM, Mark Johnston <markjdb at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 09, 2010 at 09:32:15PM +0200, Marin Atanasov Nikolov wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> Some time ago I've started a thread on freebsd-ports@ regarding an
>> interactive tool for installing packages under FreeBSD - pkg_add_it.
>>
>> Now that I got some time to work on the program, I have added a few
>> additional features to it, which I think someone might find useful
>> like:
>>
>>  - dependencies tree view of packages (useful to find out package dependencies)
>>  - a similar tool that does this already exists - pkg_tree, but it
>> only works for installed ports, while pkg_add_it can show you every
>> package from INDEX
>>  - regex support
>>  - displays categories and packages from each of them found in INDEX
>>  - some code improvements, etc...
>>
>> The code can be found here [1] and in order to install the program, you need to:
>>
>> # git clone git://git.unix-heaven.org/public/pkg_add_it
>> # cd pkg_add_it && make install clean
>>
>> I still haven't updated the manual pages yet, but you can read
>> something about the program on the web page [2].
>>
>> Screenshots can be seen as well. [3]
>>
>> Would be nice if someone can test it, and provide some feedback - what
>> can be removed, improved, added, etc..
>>
>> Surely, there's room for improvement, but that's a start.. :)
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Marin
>>
>> [1] git.unix-heaven.org
>> [2] www.unix-heaven.org/index.php?page=pkg_add_it
>> [3] http://www.unix-heaven.org/pkg_add_it-new-gfx/
>>
>> --
>> Marin Atanasov Nikolov
>>
>> dnaeon AT gmail DOT com
>> daemon AT unix-heaven DOT org
>> http://www.unix-heaven.org/
>

Hello Mark,

> It looks pretty neat. I spent a minute or two trying it out, and my only
> suggestion at this point is to check errno for common errors instead of
> immediately calling ERRX to report non-zero returns from system calls.
> It's kind of annoying to see a message like
>
> pkg_add_it: Error in config_read_file() from config.c at line 179: No
> such file or directory

Yep, my fault, the port does not install the config file in
/usr/local/etc/pkg_add_it.conf

I'll take care of adding it to the port :)

>
> when it's my fault that pkg_add_it can't find its config file. =)
> Ditto for things like permissions errors and getenv(3). sudo doesn't
> bring in my environment unless I use -E, so I get the following message
> when a 'getenv("PAGER")' fails:
>
> pkg_add_it: Error in pkg_display_found() from pkg.c at line 418: No such
> file or directory
>

Thanks for the feedback, I need to fix that one too :)

Regards,
Marin

> -Mark
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Marin Atanasov Nikolov

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