puppy package manager

[Béèm]

I worked a bit with upup-015 and specially the package manager.

In one word: fantastic.
It detects the dependencies, calculate the space needed for every thing, verifies if enough space is available and then only proposes to proceed with the install the whole thing, dependencies and package in one go.

Any chance to see this beauty in 4.2X?

[magerlab]

i woud suggest to have a smaller interface for netbooks( i've tried ppm from dpup)

[BarryK]

In 4.x? Yes, but with some difficulty, I mean, a lot of work.

The package database files are different, which affects various scripts, including some boot scripts, the installer, remaster. The 'createpuppy' script in Unleashed is no longer suitable.

The easiest approach will be to use Woof. I am planning, real soon, to implement a Puppy-Puppy build from Woof. This will be a Puppy built entirely from 4.2 pet packages.

I was going to look at doing it today in fact, but WhoDo has not updated the pet packages in pet_packages-4 directory to those of 4.2 final -- the most recent upload was 14 march. I know WhoDo intends to do that soon...

[Lobster]

This will be a Puppy built entirely from 4.2 pet packages

Puppy 4.3 base?
Or Puppy 5 Alpha?
http://pupweb.org/wikka/PuppyKennel

[BarryK]

This will be a Puppy built entirely from 4.2 pet packages

Puppy 4.3 base?
Or Puppy 5 Alpha?
http://pupweb.org/wikka/PuppyKennel

Built entirely from Puppy4 pet packages, then it will belong to the 4.x series. It could be used as a starting point for 4.3, basically a replacement for Unleashed, but the 4.x development team would have to decide whether to adopt that rather than Unleashed.

[01micko]

Ahhh... so "PACKAGES_DISTRO_SPECS_Puppy" becometh reality?

[Lobster]

Built entirely from Puppy4 pet packages, then it will belong to the 4.x series. It could be used as a starting point for 4.3, basically a replacement for Unleashed, but the 4.x development team would have to decide whether to adopt that rather than Unleashed.

It makes sense
There are still versions of Puppy Deep Thought to come - a patch and a Barebone and Deeper Thought from Ttuuxxx (Jeff) has already been released . . .

We will also have 4.2 Unleashed packages and dev.xx
So this will be the basis of current puplets, day to day usage etc

[Ray MK]

Hi

puppy 4.2 turbo is also out (TurboPup) and it's fast.

Uses almost no cpu and much lower ram than any previous 4.xx I've used - even less when a pup_save.2fs file has been saved.

Runs very nicely in 93mb ram, with a 1Ghz celeron proc. and 249mb swap.

Nice work - desktop icons set for double click it seems.
Not my prefered choice - but hey - some will like it.

Must try 4.2 ttuuxxPup (no bling) too - sounds nice.
Perfect for my even older clunkers.

And 4.2 DeepThought - Very nicely done - should bring a lot of new users to Puppy and has obviously generated a great deal of interest
everywhere.

MONSTER thanks to all concerned for creating a very fine Puppy and
for providing the basis for even better to come.

Very best regards - Ray

[smokey01]

I don't often use the PPM but have just tried it in Puppy 4.2 and it didn't work.

I must admit it has not worked on my machine for many versions of puppy. I think the last time it worked was back in version 2.

It's the connection to the server that appears to be the problem. It says the sites are unreachable. In the past I didn't worry about it too much but now that Internode is one of the mirrors, which is my ISP, I am a little concerned. It must have something to do with my ports.

Email, browser, skype, attym, Psip all work fine.

I do have trouble with gFTP now and pidgin in the past.

My modem router is a D-Link G604T.

See error message:

Thanks