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  2.                             | Qi's README |
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  6.   1. Introduction
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  7.   2. Installation
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  8.   3. Contact
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  11.   1. Introduction.
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  13. Qi is a simple but well-integrated package manager.  It can create,
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  14. install, remove, and upgrade software packages.  Qi produces binary
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  15. packages using recipes, which are files containing specific instructions
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  16. to build each package from source.  Qi can manage multiple packages
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  17. under a single directory hierarchy.  This method allows to maintain a
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  18. set of packages and multiple versions of them.  This means that Qi could
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  19. be used as the main package manager or complement the existing one.
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  21.    Qi offers a friendly command line interface, a global configuration
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  22. file, a simple recipe layout to deploy software packages; also works
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  23. with binary packages in parallel, speeding up installations and packages
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  24. in production.  The format used for packages is a simplified but safe
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  25. POSIX pax archive compressed with lzip.
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  27.    Qi is a modern (POSIX-compliant) shell script released under the
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  28. terms of the GNU General Public License.  There are only two major
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  29. dependencies for the magic: graft(1) and tarlz(1), the rest is expected
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  30. to be found in any Unix-like system.
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  32.   2. Installation.
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  34. Requirements:
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  36. - A POSIX-compliant shell.
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  38. - Graft: http://peters.gormand.com.au/Home/tools
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  40.     Perl (http://www.perl.org) is required in order to run graft(1).
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  42.                                   Note
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  43.     Take into account when graft is installed, you can define some
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  44.     macros like PACKAGEDIR and TARGETDIR.  To be consistent use the
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  45.     same paths when `configure', adjusting it via --packagedir and
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  46.     --targetdir options.  If you have not changed the default values
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  47.     used on the graft installation, you can avoid these steps, since
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  48.     qi uses the same graft values for PACKAGEDIR and TARGETDIR.
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  50. - Tarlz: http://lzip.nongnu.org/tarlz.html
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  52. - A mktemp(1) implementation (normally included in the system):
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  53.   http://www.mktemp.org
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  55. To configure, make and install qi, type:
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  57.   $ ./configure
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  58.   $ make
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  59.   $ make install
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  61. See `./configure --help' for more options.
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  63. To install in a different location, DESTDIR is supported.  This is useful
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  64. for package distributors:
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  66.   $ make DESTDIR=/tmp/qi install
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  68.   3. Contact.
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  70.   The Qi home page can be found at `http://www.dragora.org'.
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  71. Send bug reports or suggestions to <dragora-users@nongnu.org>.
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