Synaptic-like software - PC-BSD Forums

mario_net · #1 02-20-2006, 08:01 AM

Hello,

My suggestion follows:

We should build a synaptic-like software that would handle installing, unistalling packages, and doing binary upgrade on a system.
It would be based on command-line utility utilizing the following functions (are more needed? suggestion?)

update - gets packages list from a server
upgrade - upgrades package/s
install - installs package from server/hard drive
dist-upgrade - binary upgrade of distribution *i.e. 0.8. to 3.0*
search - searches for package

And yes,I understand that there is a Remove packages GUI, that there are Remove and Install scripts, and so on...
But the problem emerges when we will have a lot of packages...
Not everybody want to browse a web...

Comments? Thoughts?

Best regards,
Mario

Charles · #2 02-20-2006, 07:04 PM

Originally Posted by mario_net

But the problem emerges when we will have a lot of packages...
Not everybody want to browse a web...

What do you mean?

mario_net · #3 02-20-2006, 07:06 PM

Originally Posted by Charles

Originally Posted by mario_net

But the problem emerges when we will have a lot of packages...
Not everybody want to browse a web...

What do you mean?

Well, currently (and probably later on) PBI packages will be located on web (PBIdir)...
But not everybody will want to go to web and search all that much of packages (

), so they can just use synaptic-like software to install a package, remove, search for package or something simmilar...

Charles · #4 02-20-2006, 07:17 PM

This is not the philosophy of PC-BSD. PC-BSD wants to escape from this concept of tighting the software to the OS. PBIDir is just a web site among others, thank God

There will be PBIs from many many commercial websites I hope!

gnutux · #5 02-20-2006, 11:33 PM

I too think that we need a program that is like the APT. I don't much agree with the PBI idea, nor do I agree to the idea that I must compile everything at install.

:S, maybe Adept? It seems to work.

gnutux

mario_net · #6 02-20-2006, 11:34 PM

Originally Posted by gnutux

I too think that we need a program that is like the APT. I don't much agree with the PBI idea, nor do I agree to the idea that I must compile everything at install.

:S, maybe Adept? It seems to work.

gnutux

Huh? What exactly do you need to compile at install? :-/
Am I missing something here?

gnutux · #7 02-20-2006, 11:43 PM

The traditional BSD ports system requires the user to compile everything then installs it. This is timeconsuming and disc hogging

gnutux

mario_net · #8 02-20-2006, 11:44 PM

Originally Posted by gnutux

The traditional BSD ports system requires the user to compile everything then installs it. This is timeconsuming and disc hogging

gnutux

Yes, but the apt-like and therefore synaptic-like software would be working with PBI's. Also, FreeBSD and therefore PC BSD support binary packages if I am not mistaken.

gnutux · #9 02-21-2006, 12:12 AM

hmmm... this is now confusing. I still say the PBI system should work closer to the ports/binary system, having different package manager may result in a mess like what Linux is experiencing

RPM, DEB, TGZ, EBUILD, autopackage and etc.

gnutux

pcbsdusr · #10 02-21-2006, 12:23 AM

Well, PC-BSD (FreeBSD) supports binary packages already.

The idea behind pbi is to depart from a "system official" repository system to a more liberal system.

If one wants to use the freeBSD repositories it is already possible to use a frontend. DesktopBSD has done just that. But i really don't see the need for that.honest.