Bashscripts.org

Not sure if this has been done before (might have), but in my learning process I want to learn more intricate bash scripts. I think a bash based package manager and bash based package creator would be awesome and interesting to look into. It could also prove useful to some.

Specs:
Bash Package maker-
* make a directory containing a program put into a file structure (like you would see in a regular package) and run:
./packagemaker.sh /pathtoprogramfolder
to compress the folder structure and programs in it into maybe a tar.bz2 and then change the extension to something like .bpk (bash package).

Bash Package Manager-
* be able to run:
./packageman.sh install /pathtopackage/package.bpk
to install a package. then have the package manager make a install log of the installed components and maybe place it somewhere in a folder with a new log per package installed. so when you issue:
./packageman.sh remove packagename
it will remove that installed package and the install log too.

If no one is willing or able to make such a set of scripts, it's ok.

yast is actually a bash based package manager...... for suse/opensuse.

I'm sure you could mod it all out if you wanted too

Actually, this is exactly what the 'pkgutils' tools do in Slackware......

The package maker is called 'makepkg' which tarballs and compresses an entre pkg tree into a '.tgz' package (but you can modify it to use any extension, I suppose)....

Next is 'installpkg' which, as it's name implies, installs the pkg created with 'makepkg', and creates a log of the metadata and list of files installed into /var/log/packages, and also adds the postinstall script (called 'doinst.sh') if one if found into /var/log/scripts.......

Then there's 'removepkg' which removes the installed pkg by reading the log file for the file list, then removes the package log (and script log if one is present).......

Then you have 'upgradepkg', which will upgrade an existing package.....

Finally, there's 'pkgtool', which is a curses-based wrapper for the others one can use to find all about the installed packages, install new packages, upgrade existing ones......

These are all shell scripts used by Slackware......

Also, Crux has a script for making packages in it's 'pkgtools' package, called 'pkgmk'.......Though, I think the install util is a C program......I can't remember as it's been a while since I used Crux.......


---thegeekster

PS: I'm also working on a shell script package manager for an LFS setup I'm creating........

Well I have actually done something of the sort here. Its not vry advanced or anything but I think it's kinda what you meant.