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LPMtool is a Package Management tool
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LPMtool
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LPMtool is a Package Management tool
Table of Contents
1. Introduction
1. Requirements
2. libwww
2. Features
1. No more dependency hell
2.
LPMtool
's efficient web repository format
3. Restricted access repositories
4.
LPMtool
's generic resource model
3.
LPMtool
's graphical front end
1.
LPMtool
graphical front-end
2. Automatically downloading required packages
4. Current status
5. Installing
LPMtool
1. Initial
LPMtool
installation
6. Package files
7. Building packages
1.
specfile
overview
2. The build header
3. Package declarations
3.1.
Python
dependency tracking
3.2. The
“
debuginfo
”
subpackage
4. Multilingual package description
5. Miscellaneous headers
6. Build scripts
7. Installation image
8. Install/uninstall scripts
8.1. Script invocation
8.2. Triggers
9. Special requirements of uninstallation scripts and triggers
10. Script packages
11. File manifests
12. Dynamic file manifests
13. Macros
13.1. Defining macros
13.2. Referencing macros
13.3. Removing macros
13.4. Predefined macros
13.5. Advanced macro references
13.6. Conditional text inclusion
13.7. Macro processing order
14. Multiple platform builds
15. Converting
RPM
specfiles
8. Publishing packages on a web site
1. Creating
GPG
keys
2. Creating a primary repository
3. Creating packages for publishing
4. Updating the repository metadata
5. Creating a remote repository
6. Synchronizing remote repositories
7. Installing packages from remote repositories
9. Mirrors and proxies
10. Creating restricted-access repositories
1. Accessing restricted-access repositories
2. Verifying access to restricted files
3. Sample request for a restricted access file
3.1. Reference implementation
11. Metapackages - automating
“
one-click
”
installation
12. Manual Pages
lpbuild
— Build
LPMtool
packages
lpm
—
LPMtool is a Package Management tool
mklpmcompat
— Update
RPM
resources
mksyscompat
— Update system resources
mkdistrep
—
LPMtool
distribution repository toolkit
lpmauthrepo
— Restricted access
LPMtool
package repository
setauthrepo
— Initialize a restricted access
LPMtool
package repository
13.
LPMtool
Objects
1.
NAVR
- name, architecture, version, release
1.1.
NAVR
representation
1.2. Comparing package versions and releases
2. Resources
2.1. Required resources:
/etc/passwd
,
/etc/group
2.2. Generic resources
3. Special logic for file-based resources
4. Dependencies
5. Resource Databases
5.1. Finding dependencies
6. Repositories
7. Packages
7.1. Binary package files
7.2. Source package files
7.3. The Package Manifest File
7.4. Metapackage files
8. Transactions
9. Transaction Lists
10. New Transaction Lists
14. System Repository
1. FileStore
2. HashDir
2.1. Commit
3. gdbm
4. gdbm::ResourceDB
5. ResourceDB::gdbm
6. Repository::System
7. Committing the repository
15. Installing files and packages
1. Mount points
2. The lock file
3. Installing files
4. Preparing to commit
5. Committing an installation