"cask" ports just keep on rolling in...

[Jason Liu]

>
> The destroot phase needs to — what — record the files that will be
> installed in some kind of an index file? And also know about the stuff that
> gets installed into ~/Library, etc.
>

You would probably need to get the list of files installed by the installer
by running either pkgutil --files or lsbom, if we're talking about a PKG
installer. (Or maybe it would be easier to just grab the bom file in its
entirety.) Typically running an ls -R on the .app bundle inside a DMG
installer would be sufficient for those kinds of installers.

But then this begs the question: what happens to all of the work that went
into the build-from-source packages? Wouldn't this end up rendering the
hundreds of hours I spent getting the Blender package to work a complete
waste?

-- 
Jason Liu


On Fri, Feb 5, 2021 at 5:31 PM Ken Cunningham <
ken.cunningham.webuse at gmail.com> wrote:

> What would we really need to do this properly?
>
> The current fetch, checksum phases are OK.
>
> The extract phase can be used as is for some software (simple copies), but
> for other software we don’t want to extract it, we want to run the
> installer.
>
> The configure and build phases need to be overridden and disappear.
>
> The destroot phase needs to — what — record the files that will be
> installed in some kind of an index file? And also know about the stuff that
> gets installed into ~/Library, etc.
>
> Then run the “cask” destroot without installing any files into the actual
> destroot:
>
> copy the apps and stuff
> or
> run the installer
> or
> extract from the pkg
> or
> …
>
> and then NOT have the entire software repackaged into a MP archive file to
> be stored 12 different times…
>
> Or some such plan
>
> Best,
>
> Ken
>
>
>
>
>
> On Feb 5, 2021, at 11:00 AM, Ken Cunningham <
> ken.cunningham.webuse at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> With no plan, we’ll just keep getting more and more of these.
>
> <https://github.com/macports/macports-ports/pull/9936>
>
> This kind of port just repackages the DMG into many tgz archives.
>
> It’s wasteful. People want them.
>
> What we should have instead of this is some kinda tech that
>
> 1. downloads the DMG
> 2. installs the app
> 3. records some way of uninstalling everything
>
>
> What we have instead is a repackaging of the DMG into many, identical,
> system-specific archive bundles.
>
> Yuk.
>
> Ken
>
>
>
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