smart patch

[Hamish Robertson]

Hey Gustavo,
Is my idea do-able? What do I have to do to make it happen? Can you do
it? Could we pay you to add that feature in? Any ideas?
Hamish.

On 02/08/07, Hamish Robertson <robertsonhamish at gmail.com> wrote:
>  Hey Gustavo,
> You're in the ballpark. But It's still a 4 step process. It's still
> too complicated for use in a developing country.
>
> This is what I was thinking. Say I want to install skype on ubuntu
> feisty. Skype needs 2 dependancies in ubuntu to run. Normally smart
> would download skype, and it;s dependancies then install everything in
> the right order. What if we froze everything into an archive just
> before it installed? The frozen file (a .smart file?) would be
> automatically created by smart and contain the skype package, it's
> dependancies and the smart install script.
>
> The .smart file would be associated with the smart package manager.
> When a user double clicks on the file, smart opens, unpacks the .smart
> file and continues with the installation.
>
> My theory is that, we could move this smart file to another copy of
> ubuntu feisty (with smart package manager installed) on another
> computer and it would install automatically in 2 clicks.
>
> Smart does everything already, all that needs to be added is the
> freeze function and the ability for it to open up .smart files.
>
> Is this do-able?
>
> Hamish
>
>
>
> On 01/08/07, Gustavo Niemeyer <gustavo at niemeyer.net> wrote:
> > Hello Hamish,
> >
> > > My name is hamish robertson and I'm trying to put together a distro
> > > for use in Laos. I'm not sure if you read my email on the mailing list
> > > but we really need a way to install programs in linux without the
> >
> > I've read it, and I'm still trying to digest.  I'm not completely
> > sure about the nature of the feature you're looking for.
> >
> > > internet. People here will take their USB stick to an internet cafe,
> > > load the program on their memory stick and then try and install it on
> > > their computer 30 kilometers away. We all know what's going to happen
> > > when they try that with rpm files. :)
> >
> > That's feasible with Smart right now.  You can do something like:
> >
> >  1. Run: smart upgrade --urls > needed-urls.txt
> >  2. Take needed-urls.txt to the internet cafe, and download these files.
> >  3. Go back home, and put all files in a directory.
> >  4. Ask Smart to install these files.
> >
> > Am I too far off track, or are you indeed looking for something
> > like that?
> >
> > --
> > Gustavo Niemeyer
> > http://niemeyer.net
> >
>