qire

Qire, the Qi Remote Extension

Qi is the package manager for Dragora GNU+Linux-Libre version 3+. It's a fantastic, simple manager but lacks the ability to use a remote repository. That's were Qire comes into play! Qire allows users to download, install, and upgrade software found in user-specified repos. The goal is to be simple, easy-to-use, and dynamic. Qire is able to sync with multiple repositories and even install/upgrade multiple versions of the same program!

Dependencies

Build

• Lua 5.3
• Fennel
• Lispy-Fennel
• luarocks
  • luastatic
• make

Runtime

• wget
• qi
• sha256sum

Build

With make:

  > make

You will find the binary in the root directory. Use make clean to clean.

In-Progress

TODO Basics

• Update
  • Test it
• Basic upgrade
• Install [4/4]
  • Get pkg data for list of pkg-names
  • Build .tlz name from pkg-data
  • Fetch pkg from repo
  • Install with qi
• Search
• Delete [2/2]
  • Find package
  • Delete with qi
• Search Installed [1/1]
  • Actually search the real directory
• Build Index
• Help

DONE Intermediate

• Check installed versions before installing and upgrade [2/2]
  • Don't installed if there is already one installed
  • Don't update if there isn't one already installed or if the version in the repo is equal to the one installed.
• Repo selection [2/2]
  • -r option
  • User input after running -i or -u
• User input to verify installation, deletion, etc.
  • "Are you sure? [Y]/n"
• SHA256 check with install and upgrade
• Use real directories [2/2]
  • /var/cache/qire/${package-tlz}, for when you are installing and upgrading
  • /etc/qire for config
• -I, --info command
• -C, --clear-cache command
• -o, --output setting for choosing the output directory of fetched files
• Show installed vs updated version when updating
• Local info command

TODO Advanced

• Man page
• texinfo
• Real Makefile
  • Placing everything in the correct spot
  • Defaulting the correct config based on arch
• Check meta tag file for version, if tlz lacks
• qi categories [5/5]
  • Support parsing them
  • Installation all with a category (-C, --category)
  • Upgrading all with a category
  • Search locally by category
  • Remove entire categories
• -l, --local for install/upgrade
• version selection for upgrading packages
  • If you have 2 version of a package installed, you must select which one to upgrade
• default repo(s) [6/6]
  • Have a default setting in the config. Favors those repos (or repo) over others.
  • If default set to 'all', it will always search all repos.
  • If default repo(s) lacks package, search others
  • If duplicate amongst defaults, show user selection
  • If duplicates amongst non-defaults, show user selection
  • -r all will override default setting
• Support multiple versions of the same package [3/3]
  • List many of the same version from repos
    • Use the list returned from an :exact search
  • If many versions installed, show user selection upon delete
  • Select which version to upgrade if you have more than 1 installed
• Actual version comparison
  • Basically won't let you "upgrade" to a lessor or equal version.
• downgrade command
• Better UI

TODO Maintenance

• Upgrade to latest version of qi
• Better error messages
• code clean up
• Major testing

TODO Low Priority

• local index building
• More generic index building (non-table HTML parsing)
• search for updates in the filesystem (--upgrade-all)

TODO Future

- [ ] Epic querying
  - [ ] `qire install lua_5.3` get version 5.3 of lua
  - [ ] `qire install lua_5.3-2` get version 5.3 rev 2 of lua