Show optional packages non-functional

[mmadia]

With <volume>/_packages_/*.zip in place before running Installer, the packages do not display. Eg, on my machine both /boot (36432-r1a2-rc) and /generated have _packages/*.zip. To note, 36432-r1a2-rc is the initially selected source volume when running Installer.

When the packages view is collapsed, selecting /generated and then expanding it will yield no result. eg, screenshot1.png

When that view is expanded, the view appears to be updated and contain text, but it is not properly drawn. eg, screenshot2.png

[andreasf]

Noticed the lack of optional packages in hrev36100 and hrev36339 CDs' Installer, too.

[korli]

Did you have a look at how _packages_ is filled on a BeOS CD ? I remember directories with attributes like "INSTALLER PACKAGE: NAME", etc.

[mmadia]

Here's a table from ​BeTips.net and looking at an R5 Pro CD

type	id	name	data
cstr	attr	INSTALLER PACKAGE: NAME	ex. BeShare
cstr	attr	INSTALLER PACKAGE: DESCRIPTION	What this does
cstr	attr	INSTALLER PACKAGE: GROUP	ex. Net Tools
offt	attr	INSTALLER PACKAGE: SIZE	size in bytes
bool	attr	INSTALLER PACKAGE: ON_BY_DEFAULT	false or true
bool	attr	INSTALLER PACKAGE: ALWAYS_ON	false or true

But, I'm not sure how this is handled wrt our cd-image type, ​isCDPackage, and Installer. From what I can tell, when the type is cd-image & an optionalpackage sets isCDPackage = true, the archive is simply copied into _packages_/, without getting any attributes. How Installer picks this up as something to be automatically extracted during installation is fuzzy.

I'll look into creating something like _packages_/Sources with the proper attributes.

[stippi]

Yes, Installer CopyEngine just unzips everything in _packages_. Programmer laziness detected. I've made sure that all packages extract to the same destination, i.e. /boot and hard-coded this in Installer. If we want to enable the user selection process of which packages get installed, we need to work on Installer. I would say that packages which depend on other packages are left out of the optional ones at all (i.e. get installer regardless and are not displayed as optional). The distinction could be the presence of certain attributes. I could probably look into all this starting next week.

[mmadia]

Replying to stippi:

Yes, Installer CopyEngine just unzips everything in _packages_. ... I could probably look into all this starting next week.

Feel free to assign jam related tasks to me.

[mmadia]

Perhaps Installer could be updated to be HPKG friendly?

_packages_/*.hpkg is parsed for Name, Description, size, etc. Installer would then be able to simply relocate the selected hpkg's on the target destination from /_packages_ to the appropriate packages directory.

[pulkomandy]

​https://review.haiku-os.org/c/haiku/+/2185

[pulkomandy]

Fixed in hrev53865.

We still don't ship any packages by default, but that will be addressed in #14310.

[nielx]

Assign tickets with status=closed and resolution=fixed within the R1/beta2 development window to the R1/beta2 Milestone