pkg_install Rewrite

Dieter Baron < dillo@NetBSD.org >

Thomas Klausner < wiz@NetBSD.org >

Feature Set (1)

• (most of) what we have now
• pkg_delete sorts packages to be deleted
• safe in-place update of one package
• safe update of (part of) the package tree
• handling of automatically installed packages
• backwards compatibility
  • installed packages
  • old binary packages

Feature Set (2)

• config file (current environment variables)
• non-root DESTDIR installs
• PLIST
  • list of files and directories
  • special ownership and permissions
  • no commands
• central place for INSTALL shell scripts

Structure

• C library
  • language bindings (for tools and prototyping)
  • allows GUI frontend
• command line interface

Documentation

• format and contents of a binary package
• contents of /var/db/pkg
• library API
• command line interface

Regression Tests

• unit tests of library API
• tests for command line tools