Re: Re: <bundle> packages from channels

On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 3:20 PM, Travis Swicegood <development@domain51.com> wrote: > /me bumps... > > Am I the only one that cares about channel based bundles? I don't think so... I care about the concept of it, but I can see some potential problems with arbitrary bundles of packages. > > > > From the sounds of it, this may be what I have to do then. > > Creating a meta package with a require dependency on the various > > subpackages that I want to install seems like a hackish way to > > approach this, however. Especially considering that there is a > > bundle capability, albeit handicapped (from my perspective), which > > leads into... I do exactly this... create a meta package with dependencies on all the packages required, not specifying any version... but a <contents> section is required in package.xml so I just include a README file with some info about what this meta-package is. pear install channel/meta_package But, this got me thinking, can't you do something like: pear download-all -c mychannel && pear install *.tgz The command fits in one line, and you don't have to make a separate bundle... How are you making the bundles right now...? pear bundle (I have no clue what that is) ? I do think there would have to be some clear separation between what a bundle is and a package... as Greg alluded to, where's the separation between a package and a bundle. If you want to install X packages and define specific dependencies -- then it is a package. It's this arbitrary relationship in a bundle which makes it somewhat unclear how to handle. Alternatively, could you just create a zip, then tell them to extract it and run pear install *.tgz? I could see some benefit to this concept for machines without net access, but then again, I'm ignorant to all the problems this could cause. Something like: pear bundle-packages p1 p2 p3 p4 Then an offline machine could do ungzip untar and pear install all the package.tgz files... letting the installer deps as it sees fit. But, what if a package within this meta-package requires a dependency included in the meta-package... what order do they need to be installed in. Would it only work for packages with no interdependencies or order of installation? I don't know... gotta run... But if it were me, I'd just make a meta parent package with deps on all the packages you want them to install. -- Brett Bieber http://saltybeagle.com/