[Lazarus] fppkg and lazarus packages

[Joost van der Sluis]

On Fri, 2010-09-03 at 10:57 +0200, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote:
> On 3 September 2010 10:31, Michael Van Canneyt wrote:
> >
> > The mechanism is basically functional. What needs to be done is using it:
> > Setting up a server with all packages installed, and testing that.
> 
> I don't use 'lnet', but as I mentioned I have been wanting to add
> packages for ages. fpGUI and as Joost pointed out, tiOPF are the first
> two on my list.  OnGuard and EpikTimer comes to mind as well.
> 
> I'll have to read the docs again, but I was under the impression that
> FPC hosts the server - I just don't know how to submit/upload packages
> to appear in the 'fppkg list' output. Or is there support for multiple
> servers pooled together (deb repository style), so I can start hosting
> my own packages server, but then how is everybody else and fppkg going
> to know about my server?
> 
> Like I said, I need to read the docs again. :)

You'll have to write them first. I've only written down some basic
things. 

Multiple repositories and all is possible, but let's keep it simple at
start.

You'd better do the same as we did with lnet. Add a fpmake file to
tiOPF/fpGUI's repositories. If that works ok. (Check if fpmake archive
works, and if you can use that archive to install the package, without
any other resources) we can build and add it to the server.

Joost.