[gobolinux-devel] Software Installation

[Christian Holzberger]

hi,

i just digged up the zeroinstall source code a bit, i tried to archive
the following goals: 

	* have zeroinstall install programms
	  to /Programs/<Appname>/<Digest> 
	
	* make a symlink from /Programs/<Appname>/<Digest> to 
	  /Programs/<Appname>/<Appversion> 
	
	* development packages if any should be installed with the 
	  installation of 0install packages, because compile depends on 
	  headers 

after some try and error and code research i see that the stores in
0install heavy depend on having the packages cache in the format
<cachedir>/<digest>/ 


On Fri, 2008-06-27 at 03:25 +0100, Matt Lawrence wrote:
> Hi. I would first of all like to congratulate all of you on not just
> being "yet another Linux distro". You guys have contributed so much
> more than the vast majority of distributions out there and I wish you
> and your distribution well.
> 
> For your benefit, I would like to draw your attention to another
> project, namely Zero Install. This project has the ability to
> automatically fetch and install dependencies. It also has other
> requirements for it's binaries that match your requirements, such as
> the binary must be portable and in a common archive format (though
> Zero Install can use other package formats).
> 
> Hopefully using Zero Install would also help you distribute a wider
> variety of up-to-date software to your users, which would make your
> distribution even more appealing. I say this because Zero Install and
> Autopackage plan to co-operate in order to create packages which can
> be used with either method of installation, which could provide even
> more packages that could be run on your system. Even if you choose not
> to use Zero Install, maybe the shared format could be used with your
> distribution and symbolize a whole new level of co-operation between
> installation methods.
> 
> As for other features, it has digital signatures, automatic updating,
> non-root installation and more. I'm sure this could be tightly
> integrated with your system.
> 
> If I am wrong and this idea is completely useless to you, I apologize
> sincerely for wasting your time.
> 
> Thanks,
> Matt
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