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make-based package installer/uninstaller update

Posted 04-09-2012 at 12:06 PM by rainbowsally
Updated 04-10-2012 at 09:39 AM by rainbowsally (info update re. ksmserver crash)

Tags compiling, computer mad science

[msg updated apr 10, 2012 -rs]
Here's the link to blog with the download.

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...staller-34641/

Meanwhile, here's how my qt4 project is going so far and I'll include the file that turns version 1.0.1 into 1.0.2 below.

make-based qt4

One problem file was libphonon.* (Temporarily moved back to /opt) Required reinstalling phonon packages (to restore the config, probably).
[Need to unpack the phonon packages and see what configs they write.]

Another was a ksmserver crash. Probably because I was installing using KDE which has qt4 dependencies. Using LXDE, Restored from backups, then repeated the install and no prob.

[Apr 10, 2012:
The ksmserver crash was not solved. It crashed when I rebooted. I was able to 'make restore' to get back to a working KDE, however. This indicates that the problem is not a config, but an executable (bin or lib) file which I now have to identify. I'll start by comparing ldd outputs for <dir>/bin/ksmserver and seeing if there are any obvious differences. -rs]

18,429 qt4 files now moved from /opt to /usr
57 files still in /opt

[Apr 10, 2012: Nope. About 76 to go... -rs]

[If you missed it before, this qt4 installation crashed my system like WOW! Part, if not all of the problem had been that the previous make-based system (alpha) fouled up permissions in the installation destination. Now looking for other possible probs.]

The way files are moved using the make-based system is as follows:

Code:

[start]:
  init (the dat files)
  install (to get the backup fileset)
  test    
  uninstall
  restore (from backup fileset)
  move files in the TREE
  rename the backup folder
  repeat from [start].

I used 'make set-user-perms' and 'make set-root-perms' to allow me to move the files as my normal user but to install as root.

The check info dir problem is DISMALLY slow in a shell using sed to filter the names when there are like 20,000 file names. This needs to be rewritten in C.

Code:

// infodir-check.c - replacement for shell script in ~/bin/src/new-make/mktools

#include <stdio.h>  // printf()
#include <stdlib.h> // getenv()
#include <string.h> // strrchr()

void dbg(){}

char pad[256];
char HERE[256];

void cd(const char* dir)
{
  chdir(dir);
  setenv("PWD", (char*)get_current_dir_name(), 1);
}

void cd_dirname(const char* execpath)
{
  char* p;
  sprintf(pad, execpath);
  p = strrchr(pad, '/');
  if(p)
  {
    *p = 0; // needs some more checks.
    cd(pad);
  }
}

void do_check();

int main(int argc, char** argv)
{
  dbg();
  cd_dirname(argv[0]);
  cd("..");
  sprintf(HERE, getenv("PWD"));
  if(argc == 1 || strcmp(argv[1], "working"))
  {
    printf(
      "Only run this from the makefile as 'make <app>' where <app>\n"
      "is the name of the function minus the 'mktools' prefix.\n"
      "\n"
      "Press ENTER to abort now.\n"
      "\n");
    getchar();
    return 1;
  }
  do_check();
  return 0;
}

void do_check()
{
  int found = 0;
  int err = 1;
  do
  {
    FILE* fp = fopen("files.dat", "r");
    if(!fp) break;
    fseek(fp, 0, SEEK_END);
    size_t fsize = ftell(fp);
    fseek(fp, 0, SEEK_SET);
    char* buf = (char*)malloc(fsize+1);
    fread(buf, 1, fsize, fp);
    buf[fsize] = 0;
    if(strstr(buf, "/share/info/dir"))
      found++;
    err = 0;
  }while(0);
  if(err)
    printf("Can't find 'files.dat' file\n");
  else if(found)
  {
    printf("\n"
    "WARNING:\n"
    "   \n"
    "   The file share/info/dir exists in your 'files.dat'.  This file \n"
    "   cannot be processed by the current Makefile install function.\n"
    "\n"
    "   Recommend removing or renaming it for manual addition (using \n"
    "   texitools) after installation, or if you know your user has \n"
    "   texitools, you might want to add mk_post -install and -uninstall \n"
    "   functions to add and remove the directory entries correctly.\n"
    "\n"
    );
    getchar();
    return;
  }        
}

That executable MUST be in the mktools directory of the files tree so it is copied every time you execute new.make.

You may not notice much of a speed improvement for smaller packages but this speeds up that info dir check quite a bit. Check this out.

Code:

$> time mktools/infodir-check-orig working
real    1m 14.451s

$> time mktools/infodir-check-new working
real    0m 0.020s

Almost 4 thousand times faster than the script. Not 4 thousand percent, 4 thousand times.

:-)

make-based package installer/uninstaller update

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