There is a lot of new things that I need to talk about !
First the bad news : I saw on CPAN reports that the "fix" I made for Slackware::Slackget to properly test on Solaris OS is not working.
That is a bad thing but... I don't really see the purpose on trying to fix an issue on an OS which is not a Slackware based one and not even a GNU/Linux OS ! The Slackware::Slackget module will never be usefull on this OS, so since I have no Solaris to test I will just forget about it (unless somebody provides me with a patch for this system.
Now for all the good news :
- slack-get suite (sg_daemon + slack-get) is now able to install, upgrade and remove packages
So from now on, you can start a daemon and do a
"slack-get install
flightgear" for example 
That's a very important point but it's nothing worth talking about without the dependencies tracking system.
Talking about that...
- the dependencies tracking system is now fully functionnal
This part still need to be tested and there is no guarantees, so far, that it is working properly in all cases.
But so far my tests where very promisefull ! I add no problems and for the moment I have not yet discovered any bugs in this feature.
Again, that does not means that I will not uncover bugs later.
- add support for automatic GPG key import
This feature works well and is totally automatic : if sg_daemon do not find the Slackware Project's key in the user's GPG keyring, it download it and import it. Nice and easy.
- add new feature to slack-get (cli client)
"info". You can
use it the exact same way than the "search" command (this is the
exact same code which is processing it).The goal of this command is to provide more informations about a package. Here is an usage example :
$ ./slack-get info flightgear --media=slacky
Package: flightgear-1.0.0-i686-1as
Size (compressed): 3158 KB
Version: 1.0.0
Source: slacky
Description: The FlightGear flight simulator open-source project.The
goal of the FlightGear project is to create a
sophisticated flight simulator framework for use in
research or academic environments, for the development and
pursuit
of other interesting flight simulation ideas, and as an end-user
application
http://www.flightgear.org/ WWW.SLACKY.IT PackaGer Gohanz.This little example, allow me to introduce the new command line option : --media. This one allow you to restrict the "search" or "info" commandes to the choosen media (in the previous example I wanted only results from the Slacky.it website).
Last about the slack-get cli client, I fixed lots of "non closing bugs". The non closing bugs are an annoying problem of slack-get cli client.
While the whole system became multitasks, it's becomming difficult to keep track of what the client asked by itself (particularly in a multi-administrators context), and after asking a sg_daemon to perform some tasks (and after the tasks are finished) the client does not end.
I corrected a lot of thoses problems.
A good example of this issue is with the
"slack-get update"
command. This one scheduled a tasks to upgrade all packages which have new ones
in the patches/ subtree of the official-media (see config.xml). After the
update, the client was not quitting. It is now corrected.- dynamic network backends negociation
If sg_daemon supports XML and Base64 backends, and if the slack-get client supports XML and Gzip backends ; they will both agree on using the biggest common denominator (in this case they will use XML only).
I am very happy (and quite proud) of this mechanism. It allows tons of new development and many plugins to come !
- lots of updates in the Slackware::Slackget Perl module
As a conclusion, I will just say that there is still some works to do but it's becomming to be a very usable tool. I'm using it every day now.
I hope all the work I made on slack-get will be of interets for you all !
As a bonus track I give you the new slack-get logo (that I made myself... so be kind
)
Enjoy !
Arnaud Dupuis
