Efforts/Package Restructuring/Backends

Example Product creation for by target deployment system.

Capabilities

Please see Package_Formats&Repositories

Product View

All of our package oriented target deployment system lack a Product View. This has been recognized already some while, when we switched to native installers, and lead to the Java Installer, basically offering a Product View similar to MS Windows "Add or Remove Programs" approach.

To establish a Product View, we need to now

• which parts of a particular are already installed, and
• which parts are additionally available.

Repository Support

To integrate into deployment systems using external repositories for updating / maintaining a system, we need to be able to

• add a repository (e.g. repository.openoffice.org) during installation, respectively to
• remove a repository during de-installation.

Backends

• Efforts/Package Restructuring/Backends/Debian Package Manager/APT
• Efforts/Package Restructuring/Backends/MS Windows/Installer
• Efforts/Package Restructuring/Backends/Mac OS X
• Efforts/Package Restructuring/Backends/Red Hat Package Manager/YUM
• Efforts/Package Restructuring/Backends/Red Hat Package Manager/YaST
• Efforts/Package Restructuring/Backends/System V/Solaris