HPKG Installer app (for local packages)

[Giova84]

As suggested by Scott on the mailing list, i open this ticket to submit a GUI app to install local hpkg files:

I made this little and simple app to install local HPKG files, which is based on TrackerScript: ​https://github.com/HaikuArchives/TrackerScript (which is released under MIT license). Differently from pkgman, this is a GUI app.

So, If core developers think that would be useful improve and/or include this app in Haiku, i attach a zip archive to this ticket, an archive which contain the HPKG file for the installer (move under /boot/home/config/packages), and the modified source code (for now is only possible build this app with gcc2 compiler, but this app properly works under gcc2h Haiku and should also work in gcc4h).

I also guess that this app could be placed under system (to be treated as system apps) by replacing reference, in the source code, from"B_USER_APPS_DIRECTORY" to "B_SYSTEM_APPS_DIRECTORY".

Some screenshots:

​http://softwaredepot.xoom.it/HPKG_Installer/Screenshots/HPKG_Installer_I.png ​http://softwaredepot.xoom.it/HPKG_Installer/Screenshots/HPKG_Installer_II.png ​http://softwaredepot.xoom.it/HPKG_Installer/Screenshots/HPKG_Installer_III.png

[Giova84]

I upload revision 2 with some improvements about mime type

[Giova84]

Revision 2

[humdinger]

I wonder if it weren't a better idea to open hpkgs with HaikuDepot:

• It starts fast enough (should be even faster when it doesn't have to load a remote repository)
• It shows the summary/description of the package
• It shows links to the project website
• In the future it may run some security and integrity checks

[diver]

Maybe PackageInstaller could be adapted to do that? This way it will handle both BeOS and Haiku packages and the name fits perfectly ;-)

[waddlesplash]

No, actually I now think is a job for HaikuDepot.

I think the correct way to do this is to have a pop-up dialog that's basically the lower panel of HaikuDepot (like GDebi is on Ubuntu) and have the same "Install" button there.

[stippi]

I agree that it should be part of HaikuDepot. The package info area has quite a lot of code that doesn't need duplication. There are other ways of avoiding duplication, but I don't see why HaikuDepot should not simply run in a different mode when launched this way. Also, to extract information from a package file, I believe the tool needs to be a C++ app linking against Package Kit.

[waddlesplash]

@stippi With your recent changes, this can probably be closed. However, it'd be nice to have HaikuDepot be set as the default app for HPKGs, can you do that?

[diver]

(In #10069) Mostly a dupe of #10236.