Things to do for ipkg, in a partial order: 0) Play with configure to check for strdup/strndup ( to works with replace/replace.h stuffs ) 1) Fix incompatibilities between current C-based ipkg and original sh-based ipkg. 1.a) Fix ipkg.conf options for http_proxy and friends. DONE: http_proxy tested, (ftp_proxy, no_proxy, proxy_user, and proxy_passwd have not been tested). 1.b) Fix export of PKG_ROOT during pkg_run_script. DONE: tested. 1.c) Fix so that a src with file:// is supported. DONE: tested. 1.d) Fix paths in list files. DONE: tested. 1.e) Fix offline_root mode. DONE: tested. 2) Release ipkg as ipkg, (no longer as ipkg-unstable). This depends on all of (1) being DONE. Although I might let this release proceed without offline_root --- only Jamey will complain. ;-) 3) Bug fixes 3.a) fix all code marked "XXX: BUG" 3.b) fix all outstanding ipkg bugzilla bugs 3.c) conffiles support seems broken again. It's prompting on just about every file. It might be because of file names beginning with "///". FIXED the "///" problem, (seemed harmless though), in 0.99.2 FIXED a problem with conffiles with -force-reinstall in 0.99.2. This seems to be mostly working now, (I have seen strange prompting on one out of the three ssh conffiles, maybe the postinst script changed it? Hmmm... and something is going on with pcmcia-cs too. Mysterious.) 3.d) Test versioned Depends 3.e) Test Provides. DONE. 3.f) Make sure Suggests, Recommends, (Enhances?), all work, (I know some of these are not yet implemented) 3.g) Audit all dpkg package fields for both parsing and printing support. 3.h) "ipkg status" and "ipkg info" need to complain about unknown packages. For that matter, these two commands should probably just become aliases to the same functionality. Jamey thinks ipkg status should be brief give one line per package, while ipkg info can continue to be verbose. 7/23/2002. 3.i) Currently "ipkg install foo" will upgrade foo if possible. The "Package foo is already installed" check needs to be moved up to avoid this. Jamey thinkgs that "ipkg install foo" should upgrade foo. 7/23/2002. 4) Implement new features 4.a) start with all "XXX: FEATURE" comments 4.b) implement all accepted ipkg bugzilla feature requests, (also check old post "Subject: Reinventing ipkg" to see if we forgot any of the good ideas we had once upon a time) 4.c) ipkg remove needs to (prompt first) then remove packages for which the dependencies will no longer be met. DONE. 7/19/2002. 4.d) Add support for: ipkg install foo from some-feed ipkg install foo-0.4.3 ipkg install foo-latest # Only needed if we add a feed-order-priority option or something like that. 4.e) Orphaned dependency management (what is this -Jamey 7/23/2002) 4.f) Add code for HTTP GET to eliminate wget dependence, (see apps/urlget for code). We should probably still keep the wget call as a backup. -- use busybox's internal wget -jamey 7/23/2002 4.g) Experiment with making a small statically linked binary. Can we eliminate some library calls, (glob, regcomp)? Can we get something like uclibc to work well? 4.h) Add support for a deb-src in /etc/ipkg.conf. (ARGH! Name clash alert! In apt-land, deb-src means something very different than what I would mean here. Hrm... Maybe src-deb would be cleaner? ) (What is this? Jamey 7/23/2002) 4.i) Figure out a clever chroot mechanism for running maintainer scripts in offline_root mode. 4.j) Implement ipkg history mechanism, with undo and redo? Keep track of packages removed/installed by each call to ipkg. 5) release ipkg-1.0.0 6) Cleanup the code 6.a) Start with all comments marked "XXX: CLEANUP"