Re: [sentinix-list] Sentinix and apt

Sorry michel!

"Me write proprietary software??? Just to make things clear: I am never going 
to write proprietary software!"

that was a bad choice of word on my part!  lol my intent was just to state that you were working on your own package manager, :)


-----Original Message-----
From: Michel Blomgren <[email protected]>
Sent: Jan 21, 2004 4:51 PM
To: The SENTINIX Mailing List <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [sentinix-list] Sentinix and apt

Me write proprietary software??? Just to make things clear: I am never going 
to write proprietary software!

sxpkg will be under GNU GPL, as all other software I write.
I am quite busy at the moment, with COMDEX Scandinavia, but I'll take the time 
to write this...

Why not use apt from Debian?  I've been looking at apt and some other package 
tools, and I decide to write my own simply because I believe it'll save me 
more time than customizing e.g. apt (which is written in Perl, and I'm not 
high on Perl... but that's just one reason).

I want another approach, not claiming to be better or anything, just to 
fullfill two goals:
	1) make the compilation, installation and package-making process totally 
automated (we need this in order to, in the future, focus on securing 
sentinix and making better interfaces and better interoperability).
	2) a simple shell-script-written (bash) package tool, starting with only two 
features; install package(s) and remove package(s). This tool should "plug 
into" the compilation process with ease.

The Makefiles and install scripts in the SENTINIX Source Tree (also GPL) use a 
program named installwatch (also GPL, (c) Pancrazio `Ezio' de Mauro).  
installwatch generates log files of system calls very efficiently.
sxpkg will create binary packages out of these log files, be able to install 
these binary packages and be able to remove binary packages.

The Source Tree is in CVS, located at 
http://developer.berlios.de/projects/sentinix/.

	Michel

On Wednesday 21 January 2004 21:50, M. Morgan wrote:
> Niels,
>  I believe Michel (and developers) are working on a proprietary package
> manager for Sentinix,"sxpkg" or something along those lines. In the
> meantime, .tar.gz is what Im doing and at this point all im really adding
> to the distro is Tripwire and Webmin (and in one case honeyd). There "is" a
> package manager (sxpkg) in the works but development is not complete in the
> current ISO.
>
> I guess Michel could give you a better update but thats it as far as I
> know.
>
> thanks,
> michael
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Niels Bach <NB-9MBlENQnw05knbxzx/[email protected]>
> Sent: Jan 21, 2004 7:10 AM
> To: "'[email protected]'" <[email protected]>
> Subject: [sentinix-list] Sentinix and apt
>
> Is there any reason why Sentinix does not ship with apt (the Debian package
> manager) ?
>
> This would make it easier to customize and maintain the box, e.g. update
> progams and get security updates.
>
> best regards
>
> Niels
>
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