Re: AutoPortage

I am interested in more detail, if you don't mind.  Is the intention to
control the full lifecycle (from downloading, compiling, packaging, and
updating)?

Matthew


On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 4:06 PM, Neil Munro <[email protected]> wrote:

> I'm building my own application at the moment (slow progress atm) that has
> been accepted for a university proposal for a final year project for
> building/installing packages from source (or autopackage or native binary
> format) it's not quite in the same vein, but similar it's a graphical
> application to subscribing to the application updates you want and you could
> quite easily (once complete) use this to achieve a similar outcome, i could
> provide more details if you like, and if you feel your project is
> sufficiently different to warrent a new project go for it! :)
>
> 2008/12/23 Matthew Tedder <[email protected]>
>
> Has any thought been given to building a system to support maintenance of
>> autopackages or is the effort focused on just getting application developers
>> to build autopackages, individually?
>>
>> I am considering building an "AutoPortage" something like BSD ports or
>> Gentoo's Portage.  It would be based on a registry of where to download the
>> sources for each version of each application along with a script to make and
>> package.
>>
>> This would be a server-side tool for efficient maintenance of
>> autopackages.  I am still pondering the details, but need to ask if any
>> similar endeavor is already taking place by chance?
>>
>> Matthew
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