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task #8226: Submission of urpkg

Submitter:  Sebastien Vasey <svasey>
Submitted:  Tue 03 Jun 2008 02:40:45 PM UTC
   
 
Should Start On:  Tue 03 Jun 2008 12:00:00 AM UTC Should be Finished on:  Fri 13 Jun 2008 12:00:00 AM UTC
Category:  Project Approval Priority:  * 5 - Normal
Status:  Done Privacy:  Public
Assigned to:  alexshulgin Open/Closed:  Closed
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Mon 25 Aug 2008 08:35:11 PM UTC, comment #1: 

Hi,

Sorry for delay in review.

I've approved your project--you'll receive a mail with further instructions shortly.  I've also changed license to "GPLv3 or later" in the project description.

Welcome on board! :-)
--
Alex

Alexander Shulgin <alexshulgin>
Tue 03 Jun 2008 02:40:45 PM UTC, original submission:  

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Registration Details


  • Name: urpkg
  • System Name:  urpkg
  • Type: non-GNU software & documentation
  • License: GNU General Public License v2 or later (Actually under the GPL v3 or later)





Description:

Urpkg is a software to install programs in a safe and undoable way. It is able to see what files any given installation command creates, list and remove them. You are able to restrict the installation command so that it only writes where you allow it to, and does not overwrite files from other packages. Urpkg is especially useful if you want to install programs from source, or create binary packages in an automated way. Behind the hook, urpkg creates a user for each package it has to install, which prevents the installation command to run with root privillege. Urpkg can be seen as a "command tracer", that remembers what files a command created and prevents it to do forbidden things. As an example, if you want to install emacs from source after having compiled it, you can cd to the source directory and run "urpkg --install --pkg-name=emacs-22 make install" and the files will be installed to their proper place. You can then list them using "urpkg --list emacs-22". Urpkg is written in C but relies on some external commands like GNU Find.


Other Software Required:

GNU bash <http://www.gnu.org/software/bash/> (GPL)
GNU grep <http://www.gnu.org/software/grep/> (GPL)
GNU sed <http://www.gnu.org/software/sed/> (GPL)
GNU findutils <http://www.gnu.org/software/findutils/> (GPL)
GNU coreutils <http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/> (GPL)
which, e.g <http://www.xs4all.nl/~carlo17/which/> (GPL)



Tarball URL:

http://savannah.gnu.org/submissions_uploads/urpkg-0.2.tar.gz


Sebastien Vasey <svasey>

 

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