[haiku-inc] Contract Proposal: Package Management
- From: "Ingo Weinhold" <ingo_weinhold@xxxxxx>
- To: haiku-inc@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 11 Jun 2011 21:55:11 +0200
Greetings,
as Matt recently reminded me, Haiku, Inc. is still interested in contracting
developers. Currently I find myself in a sitation where that would actually be
possible for me. I believe package management is still the number one roadblock
for R1 and after talking to Oliver a few days ago, I'm sure there's more than
enough left to do to easily fill a month of full time work. So that seems to be
an excellent task for contract work.
I propose to work 160 hours for a total amount of 2000 Euro (currently US
$2869,50) on the Haiku package management solution and related tasks. This
would include, though not be limited to, the following:
* Adjust the build system and tools to build and install the Haiku core system
as a package.
* Extend the boot loader and the kernel to support booting off a partition with
a packaged Haiku core system.
* Extend packagefs to provide symlinks for base paths of packages and their
dependencies (needed for dealing with packages that hard-code absolute paths).
* Work on tools to build Haiku packages in a clean chroot environment.
* Adjust build "recipes" for HaikuPorts packages as needed and build the
packages. A tool to check the package against packaging guidelines might need
to be implemented.
* Extend packagefs to provide information about active packages to the tools
that need it (e.g. the package solver).
* Implement the package solver (as Oliver proposed based on libsatsolver).
* Extend the package kit and the (CLI) package manager to support adding,
removing, and updating packages. That probably also involves work on a
server-side (i.e. repository) part.
* If necessary, add a caching mechanism to packagefs to speed up mounting it.
* Implement a GUI package manager.
I don't expect to complete all that in 160 hours. There'll probably also be
tasks that I haven't thought of, which become obvious while working on it. At
any rate I'm optimistic that significant headway can be made.
Please get back to me with a decision until June 18th.
CU, Ingo
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