General TC > Remasters / Remixes - Unofficial
corepkg - a new core package and updates manager
martin:
--- Quote from: bmarkus ---Do not understand. You are promoting a program without making it available in a usable format (aka .tcz)
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Because the version of the program for the administration side is compiled with a different setting. I can compile it for administrative use if they want.
--- Quote ---forcing a user to compile it.
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Chicken and egg I guess. It is useless to users without the package database already generated on the repository (by the admins). I can provide a tcz right now, but users will not be able to use it. Can you use tce-update properly if there are no tcz and md5.txt files in the repository? Same thing, corepkg can't be used properly without pkg.db in the repository.
--- Quote ---I wanted to try it but can't spend time for compilation.
So interest is gone.
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I compiled it just now, with compiletc.tcz loaded, from the command in the opening post. Worked just fine.
Look, no ill will against the admins here, they just don't want it at the moment, but as something which simplifies some aspects of package manegement and speeds up package updates tremendously, it has a few benefits which can be taken advantage of. I'll create a derivative system and let the users choose.
vinnie:
I do not express regarding the decision to include or not the db (I lack the skills To make this), but if you place on a site the db generated in an automatic way from repository and make a corepkg.tcz pointing directly to the db might work?
martin:
I offered that too, no response from the admins.
So I have finished making a TinyCore derivative that is based on CorePkg. It is all GPL and non-commercial. I have a link in my forum signature.
Near complete feature listing of corepkg is:
* Download tcz files, optionally install them.
* Install existing tcz files (tce-load wrapper).
* Fetch package database from master mirror.
* Check and update all existing packages by checking their current md5sum with the new one in the package database.
* Keyword search for any package currently known by the database. Searches the tcz name, the description and the complete info for the keyword.
* Regenerate any missing md5 files.
* Will recursively download a tcz and all missing dependencies for offline use. This is great for downloading on a separate Linux machine all the extensions you want to run on TinyCore if it does not have an internet connection and transferring them over and wanting to know that it will work properly. This is extensively well tested. Others sometimes call this offline downloading.
I hope it proves useful.
roberts:
It is fine that you have decided thet you can make a better dstro than ours.
But where are the sources? You are in violation of the GPL without hosting/providing the sources.
Your link to your external site is in violation of our forum rules and has been removed.
I expect to you respect us and our rules just as now you would expect the same for your site.
I really feel that it is too bad that you cannot join a common effort. But then there are always those that won't.
martin:
--- Quote from: roberts on February 04, 2012, 07:07:16 PM ---But where are the sources? You are in violation of the GPL without hosting/providing the sources.
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I only have to show where to get them. I haven't finished the website yet. I was going to link to the TinyCore src and the sourceforge page from the about page.
--- Quote ---Your link to your external site is in violation of our forum rules and has been removed.
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there are quite a few rules in several places, could you point to the ones I violated in case I overlooked anything?
--- Quote ---I really feel that it is too bad that you cannot join a common effort. But then there are always those that won't.
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I tried very hard to join the common effort, everything from contribute several extensions to wanting to propose a possible system that is complementary to the base TinyCore idea, but you wouldn't have it. I felt I could handle package updates in a more effective and much faster way than they are currently performed and I displayed it as well as expressing it so as not to seem like I am all words and no action.
So please, tell me how I have fallen foul of your goals and good will by my well intentioned actions.
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