(packageReinstall) and UI access have been tested successfully with a
variation of different situations including:
+ Reinstall a package for which no other packages depend
+ Purposefully do thinks like reinstall a package that is not installed
+ Try to reinstall a package which other installed packages still depend
NOTE: There is no "force" used; if a package is required by other packages,
it will not be uninstalled (and therefore no reinstall is done).
Both scripted access (packageDelete) and UI access have been tested
successfully with a variation of different situations including:
+ Uninstall a package which no other installed package depends
+ Uninstall multiple packages which no other installed packages depend
+ Uninstall multiple packages which depend on each other
+ Similar to above but when ordered removal requires tracing dependencies
+ Purposefully do things like uninstall a package that is not installed
+ Try to uninstall a package which other installed packages still depend
+ Try to uninstall multiple packages which other installed packages depend
+ And many more.
sysinstall(8). The UI for this will come later while this exposes the
functionality to the scripted interface. Tested successfully to first
install the pcnfsd package from the `Latest' repository, and second to
configure mountd_flags="-n" in rc.conf(5).
pending). Both scripted access (packageAdd) and UI access have been tested
successfully with a variation of different situations including:
+ Install a package with no dependencies
+ Install a package with dependencies that are already installed
+ Install a package with dependencies where some are already installed
+ Repeat each of the above from FTP and local Directory
+ Purposefully do things like try to install a package that does not exist
+ Try to install a package for which a dependency could not be loaded
+ Try to install a package that is in the INDEX bot not on the media
+ And many more.
Add support for installation directly via HTTP.
While we're here, remove the menu-item for Passive FTP (since moving to
ftp(1) and switching FTPMODE to `auto' by default -- see r251613 -- the
single remaining FTP menu-item works for both ftp.f.o and ftp-archive.f.o;
previously each requiring separately active versus passive both work with
the `auto' setting). In scripting you still have mediaSetFTPActive and
mediaSetFTPPassive but the remaining FTP menu-item uses mediaSetFTP which
defaults to `auto' (aforementioned SVN r251613).
categories, view packages, mark packages for installation, de-installation,
or re-installation, calculate and track dependencies, as well as ability to
review selections.
Still to come is the actual processing of selections (performing the
various actions associated with the user's selections, such as installing
dependencies first, then selections, etc.).
accessing files from various types of media nice and abstracted away from
the wet-work involved in preparing, validating, and initializing those
types of media. This will be used for the package management system module
and other modules that need access to files and want to allow the user to
decide where those files come from (either in a scripted fashion, prompted
fashion, or any combination thereof).
Heavily inspired by sysinstall and even uses the same reserved words so
that scripts are portable. Coded over months, tested continuously through-
out, and reviewed several times.
Some notes about the changes:
- Move network-setting acquisition/validation routines to media/tcpip.subr
- The options screen from sysinstall has been converted to a dialog menu
- The "UFS" media choice is renamed to "Directory" to reflect how sysinstall
treats the choice and a new [true] "UFS" media choice has been added that
acts on real UFS partitions (such as external disks with disklabels).
- Many more help files have been resurrected from sysinstall (I noticed that
some of the content seems a bit dated; I gave them a once-over but they
could really use an update).
- A total of 10 media choices are presented (via mediaGetType) including:
CD/DVD, FTP, FTP Passive, HTTP Proxy, Directory, NFS, DOS, UFS, Floppy, USB
- Novel struct/device management layer for managing the issue of passing
more information than can comfortably fit in an argument list.
