Re: Little redesign of package files for 1.3

On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 7:28 PM, Isak Savo <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Curretly the data payload gets copied to a working directory before the
>> installation AFAIK. I think that's not a good thing for packages which are
>> very big. If I download a 1 GB package, i need 4 GB of free space (.package
>> file, working directory, extraction of the payload, installed files).
>
> It does? didn't know that.

Only as fair as i know, haven't tested it.

> The difference being that with autopackage you actually *can* run the
> install scripts as $user, which you can't with rpm and deb :)

I think it would even be possible to install a package as root without
actually running any of its code as root. Packagers could still make
flexible packages, but should do that in the Prepare section. The
actually copy/move part to the prefix should be autopackages job.

The idea behind installEverything is the following: When I created a
package for a program i realized, that calling the right function
inside the  [Install] section is a job, which could be easily made by
a script (and makepackage creates the Install section for you if you
leave it blank afaik). So my idea is, to remove the [Install] section
completely, I don't see a case where it is really needed. Instead of
calling

installBin mybinary

i could call

mv mybinary bin/mybinary

inside Prepare.

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