Package Management TODO

• Extend packagefs to provide symlinks for base paths of packages and their dependencies (needed for dealing with packages that hard-code absolute paths).

• Prepare packagefs to be usable in a chroot environment. Currently it resolves the package directory path in the kernel I/O context.

• Build system: Before creating packages (e.g. the user guide), all files must be identified, since packagefs is read-only.

• Work on tools to build Haiku packages in a clean chroot environment.

• Define packaging guidelines and create a tool to check packages those.

• Adjust build "recipes" for HaikuPorts packages as needed and build the packages.

• Extend packagefs to provide information about active packages to the tools that need it (e.g. the package solver).

• Implement the package solver (as Oliver proposed based on libsatsolver).

• Extend the package kit and the (CLI) package manager to support adding, removing, and updating packages. That probably also involves work on a server-side (i.e. repository) part.

• Implement query support in packagefs.

• If necessary, add a caching mechanism to packagefs to speed up mounting it.

• Implement a GUI package manager.

• Make the update feature of the build system usable again. Currently for anything in the haiku.hpkg package the whole package has to be rebuilt, which takes a rather long time.