pkg_add_it - new version

[DNAeon]

Hello,

It's been a while since I haven't posted anything in these forums, but now I'm back

I would like to inform you that I did some work on a tool I previously started, here on these forums - pkg_add_it, a tool for interactive installation of packages. [1]

Now, I've managed to do some work on the tool and did a complete rewrite of it, so now it has much more options and improved code.. so the tool in general can do these things:

- displays dependencies in tree view (something that I think some people might find useful)
- displays what is going to be installed
- show categories and number of packages in them
- search by categories
- regex support
- and more...

Still there's some things that still need improvement, but at least it's a start

I would appreciate if you could install it and test it, so you can provide some feedback on what can still be done and improved.

There are some screenshots available as well [2].

In order to install it, just follow these steps:

# git clone git://git.unix-heaven.org/public/pkg_add_it
# cd pkg_add_it && make install clean

[1] http://www.daemonforums.org/showthread.php?t=2000
[2] http://www.unix-heaven.org/pkg_add_it-new-gfx/
[3] www.unix-heaven.org/index.php?page=pkg_add_it

[DNAeon]

Hello,

Just an update..

I spent some time today working on the algorithm for finding package
dependencies from INDEX and
managed to improve it a lot, so now dependencies are being found in
times faster than before (!!)

The previous algorithm was recursing over the INDEX file in order to
find all dependencies to build a tree-view of
the package dependencies, and now only 1 iteration is needed to
accomplish this

Now, only if there was a libpkg ready, then pkg_add_it(1) could be
transformed into a standalone install tool, which does not need
pkg_add(1) for it's job

Regards,

[TerryP]

I would be happy to test, but sadly lack a FreeBSD machine :'(

[vermaden]

@DNAeon

Am I doing something wrong here?

# pkg_add_it -r fluxbox
# pkg_add_it: Error in config_read_file() from config.c at line 179: No such file or directory

[DNAeon]

Originally Posted by vermaden

@DNAeon

Am I doing something wrong here?

# pkg_add_it -r fluxbox
# pkg_add_it: Error in config_read_file() from config.c at line 179: No such file or directory

Hello mate

pkg_add_it uses a configuration file, which defaults to /usr/local/etc/pkg_add_it.conf.

Please use the -f option to specify the configuration file that you've cloned with the code of the program. This file will be installed by the port, that's why it is not being installed when you compile the program from the repo.

Another thing that I'm working on is to have more user-friendly error messages

The manual pages will be updated probably today as well, so I hope by the end of today I'll be able to submit a PR.

Regards,

[DNAeon]

PR was submitted, hopefully it will get soon to the Ports Tree

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=152222