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TITLE : Package management in jhalfs
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BY : Pierre Labastie (work in progress)
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$Id$
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1. INTRODUCTION:
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There are several hints discussing package management for LFS, but
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nothing under jhalfs. There used to be a patch for PACO that I cannot
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find now. So there was a need for such a tool, and an infrastructure,
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which allows using a package manager inside jhalfs, has been developped.
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I hope it is flexible enough to support several package managers, at least
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among those who use DESTDIR install and/or LD_PRELOAD during install.
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It has been tested with dpkg from Debian, pacman from Arch Linux,
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and porg. Sample configuration files are given for those three packages.
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I am sorry to say I have (almost) no experience with rpm, so I cannot
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tell whether it would fit.
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2. OVERVIEW OF THE SYSTEM:
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For now, package management is only available for LFS. The `porg style'
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(see below) package management has been ported to BLFS, but not the distro
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style one (the book layout makes it rather difficult). I have not attempted
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to adapt this tool for the other flavours of LFS (TODO).
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This tool comes in two flavours:
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- for distros package managers (e.g dpkg or pacman), it basically performs
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a "DESTDIR install" for all pages in chapter 6, 7 and 8 of the book. The
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name of the DESTDIR directory is the same as the one of the executed
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script. The path to this directory is available to the scriplets through
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the PKG_DEST variable. The details of the DESTDIR part are given below.
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After the package is installed in $PKG_DEST, a function "packInstall" is
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called, which is supposed to create a binary package (e.g. make a .deb
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file), store it to a repository and install it to the system.
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- for porg style package manager, the install instructions are wrapped
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between pairs of single quotes ('). This allows passing those instructions
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to a function ("wrapInstall"), which may itself call porg or another
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(e.g. fakeroot, not tested) instruction wrapper. Note that if the
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instructions contain single quote charaters, they are changed to '\'',
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which pass them literally. At the end of the installation, a function
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"packInstall" is called, with a slighly different aim compared to the
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DESTDIR one: it is used to make a tarball of the installed files (e.g.
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using "porgball") and store them into some repository. But there is no
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need to install them to the system, since this has already been done.
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Note that with carefully crafted "packInstall" and "wrapInstall"
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functions, a combination of the two methods could be used, for example for
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DESTDIR installs using fakeroot. This is work in progress and not fully
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implemented yet.
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3. DETAILS:
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The XSL stylesheet used for generating the scriptlets, automatically
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adds DESTDIR install instructions when "package management" is selected.
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Also all the paths beginning with " /" or ">/" (absolute paths) are prepended
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with $PKG_DEST. This has the default that you might want to move
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files to non existent directories. There is no simple way to automatically
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create those directories, because you have sometimes to use the full path
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(instructions of the form `cp file dir') and sometimes only the dirname
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(instructions of the form `cp file1 file2'). So the XSL stylesheet
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creates a reasonable subset of the FHS hierarchy into the destination
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directory. Empty directories are then removed before packing the
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binary package.
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In order to use the package manager, it has to be installed at the end of
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chapter 5 (temporary installation in /tools) and chapter 6 (final install).
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Furthermore, the administrative files and directories have to be created
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during the `Creating Directories' and `Creating Essential Files' stages.
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For all this, the user has to supply a file in docbook XML format, with
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the necessary instructions and enough information to download the tarball.
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This file should reside in the `pkgmngt' directory and be named
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`packageManager.xml'. A template named `packageManager.xml.template' is
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provided in the `pkgmngt' subdirectory. There are also three XML files for
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dpkg, pacman, and porg, respectively `packageManager.xml.dpkg',
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`packageManager.xml.pacman', and `packageManager.xml.porg', that you can
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copy to `packageManager.xml' and modify to suit your needs.
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They are not updated often, so the versions used can be rather old.
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The last thing to do is to tell how to use the package manager. The user
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has to provide two functions, "wrapInstall" and "packInstall", as described
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above. Please note that nothing has been done to manage configuration files,
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which are ususally treated specially by package managers: depending on
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the book layout, it is sometimes possible to create those files afterwards,
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and sometimes not, which means that you have to check them after each
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upgrade. Both functions should be defined in a file named `packInstall.sh',
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residing in the `pkgmngt' directory. A template is provided (actually a copy
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of the file for dpkg), as well as three example scripts for dpkg, pacman,
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and porg. Pacman Note: due to the way pacman checks the available space on
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disk, the root directory in chroot must be a mount point, otherwise the
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installation of packages fails.
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