wpkg 1.0.0 is Available

Submitted by Alexis Wilke on Thu, 09/17/2015 - 01:11

After hours of research and testing, we finally got a version that has an update/upgrade path that works as expected in most cases. This is version 1.0.0.

This version also includes a few other bug fixes and enhancements to the project. For example, we lifted the constrain of 200Mb per package. The problem being that some people want to generate debug packages which include PDB files. Visual Studio generates those files and they greatly help in debugging your applications in case of a crash.

Note that version 1.0.0 was uploaded on SourceForge.net without a 32 bit version. However, we now ...

wpkg 0.9.4 available

Submitted by Admin on Mon, 07/28/2014 - 21:38

wpkg 0.9.4 is a bug fixes version as proposed by Trent Clarke (see wpkg discussions Only validate.bat copied in the control.tar.gz archive and Improving package version resolution posted in the SourceForget.net UniGW Project discussion area).

The version includes a much better handling of the scripts to know which ones to include in a control.tar.gz file. Actually, the validate scripts (validate, validate.sh and validate.bat) are now being checked properly and the architecture is properly canonicalized in the wpkgar_build.cpp file before it gets checked. This makes a difference as we can now ...

wpkg 0.9.3 available

Submitted by Admin on Thu, 06/19/2014 - 09:59

We just released wpkg 0.9.3 (the mswindows version will be added very soon Done!). This version fixes two bugs found by Trent Clarke.

These two bugs were:

1. The source list URLs would be added to the wpkg internal repository list only if it represented a local directory name. So remote URIs such as HTTP remote repository were not working anymore.

2. The upgrade info command would make use of a pointer to a temporary string, which temporary, by the time it was used, had been released from memory. The result would generally be garbage, it could also have crashed wpkg.

I updated the coverage ...

pkg-explorer 0.3.0 available

Submitted by Alexis Wilke on Fri, 10/04/2013 - 03:00

We now got a version of Package Explorer available for wpkg 0.9.2+. It compiles and links against that newer version of wpkg which makes it up to date.

Version 0.3.0 is otherwise very similar to the previous version, 0.2.4, so if you already know how to use 0.2.4, you won't have any surprises.

This time we offer a fully precompiled version for MS-Windows. There is a .exe that you install as a setup.exe and there is a .zip which includes all the necessary files in a standard zip archive. You'll want to install the Qt library 4.8.x first and make sure it is in your path. We use Qt for ...

wpkg 0.9.2 available

Submitted by Alexis Wilke on Mon, 09/16/2013 - 06:00

wpkg 0.9.2 is now available! The new packager system includes a 100% coverage test of the advgetopt class. This allowed me to find out why the lone "-" wasn't working right, and a couple of other major bugs: the use of an option which requires exactly one parameter would return the very first one found from anywhere (the configuration file, the environment variable, or the command line) and it properly handles the case of a no name option which I had never tested before (this is a valid case for default parameters.)

The class also offers additional tests that are useful to catch ...

wpkg 0.8.4 available

Submitted by Alexis Wilke on Sun, 09/15/2013 - 22:30

There is new version of 0.8.x which includes a few fixes to the command line option library (advgetopt class.) As I was writing a full coverage test, I found out that one of the main feature of the class was actually not properly programmed. There is an example:

wpkg --admindir ~/admin --admindir ~/target/var/lib/wpkg/admin ...

That command line is expected to return the second path (~/target/var/lib/wpkg/admin) as the value of the --admindir option when in fact older versions would return the first path (~/admin). This is wrong first of all because the documentation says otherwise, but ...

pkg-explorer 0.2.4 available

Submitted by Alexis Wilke on Mon, 09/02/2013 - 03:02

Since I mentioned Package Explorer as one of the tools available in this project, someone asked about it and I published version 0.2.4.

At this point it is only the source code. We are still working on Qt to transform all the files so they get compiled by cmake as our whole environment is. Once that is available we'll be able to offer a full set of packages to get the Package Explorer tool installed with wpkg (and then itself, maybe, one day...)

Version 0.2.4 of Package Explorer compiles against version 0.8.x of wpkg. The API of the library changed quite a bit between 0.8.x and 0.9.x so ...

wpkg 0.9.1 available

Submitted by Alexis Wilke on Thu, 08/29/2013 - 04:07

I found out that I was encoding all the characters as in a URI (for example, the space was becoming %20) when attempting to access a file on disk. The result was that files with any character that gets encoded were just not accessible at all from wpkg.

I added a test that includes a path with two spaces. This helps quite a bit with finding potential problems in running scripts too! (Yeah... I had to fix yet another problem with running scripts under MS-Windows when a space appears in the path to the script.)

The new version also includes a few other fixes found as I was checking the ...

wpkg 0.9.0 available

Submitted by Alexis Wilke on Sat, 08/10/2013 - 18:36

Finally, I am releasing version 0.9.0!

This version corrects many glitches of older versions, including in the packaging scheme as well as handling of data by the libdebpackages library.

Also, probably one of the most important feature being added to wpkg: It is capable to building an entire repository of source packages all on its own, in other words, it is capable of being a build system by itself! Although that has minimally been tested under Microsoft Windows, it works perfectly under Linux. Our next step is to get a small repository compiled under both systems: Linux and MS-Windows.

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wpkg 0.8.3 available

Submitted by Alexis Wilke on Wed, 08/07/2013 - 01:33

Ooops! I just created version 0.8.3 since someone pointed out that to run wpkg.exe or wpkg64.exe one needed to install the usual programmer DLLs. (the infamous MSVCR100.dll and MSVCP100.dll files!)

Now I put a quick fix in 0.8.3 which generates a problem for the DLL versions of the different libraries because these are now compiled with /MT and /MTd which is not compatible with proper DLLs. If you want to use the DLLs, I suggest you look into recompiling wpkg first, or use 0.8.2 or 0.9.0 (which is about to be published, I still need to find out why Doxygen does not generate the function's ...

wpkg 0.8.2 available

Submitted by Alexis Wilke on Tue, 07/16/2013 - 09:17

Testing some more with long filenames there were still quite a few problems to resolve.

Along the way, I found out that the place where --force-configure-any should have been used, I had --force-downgrade instead.

When unpacking packages, the version wasn't being validated as expected.

The Date field would get a time zone of "ric" under MS-Windows. I replaced the output with the expected +XXXX syntax.

As I was updating the tests to fully work under MS-Windows, I had problems with the WPKG_SUBST in a unit test. It actually has to be defined in the main() function to make sure ...

wpkg 0.8.1 available

Submitted by Alexis Wilke on Sat, 06/29/2013 - 06:37

I started work on version 0.9.0 which is going to include even more advance features such as a full build system inside the packager tool (wpkg).

As I do that work, I find little, and not so little, glitches in version 0.8.0. I found a crashing problem, a big mistake preventing the use of control.info files, and the fact that limiting file names and path to what the good old tar system offers is just plain not enough so I ported the new code from 0.9.0 to support unlimited filenames in tar files!

These are the 3 major mistakes that got fixed.

I also goofed off with a few other things such ...

wpkg 0.8.0 available

Submitted by Alexis Wilke on Sat, 06/01/2013 - 09:31

Finally, after countless hours working at it, we got 0.8.0 out!

This version includes a large number of new advanced features that allow you to very easily manage a target system, manage indexes of packages, and much much more.

All the features are already documented on this website so I won't try to re-document them here! If you are just starting with wpkg, make sure to go slowly. There is a lot to learn if you want to become an expert but in most cases you can just use the basics, see the following pages:

wpkg 0.7.2 available

Submitted by Alexis Wilke on Mon, 02/25/2013 - 07:15

wpkg 0.7.2 finally made it!

There were quite a few bugs to fix in 0.7.1 and 0.7.2 is already a huge improvement over 0.7.1.

The ChangeLog file will give you all the details, but the major bugs were in the compression/decompression code which would not properly handle all cases. This new version should not fail anymore. It was tested with many more packages and some really large ones (i.e. over 250Mb in size) so the compression code has now been stressed. I also write a unit test to test that code and had no problems even with sizes equal to the buffer boundaries.

For those of you who would ...

wpkg 0.7.1 available

Submitted by Alexis Wilke on Thu, 12/13/2012 - 05:47

I quickly published 0.7.1 as I found a couple of rather bad things in 0.7.0.

The main two problems where:

1) bz2 compression, this compression method would fail with large files because the offset was not properly handled;

2) ar creation, this archiving method would fail with large files because the offset was not properly handled.

The reason why such bugs were still in that version is simple: I just changed from creating files as one large memory block which would be enlarged by using new + copy + delete to a block based mechanism allocated 64Kb blocks. A package smaller than that would ...

wpkg 0.7.0 available

Submitted by Alexis Wilke on Wed, 11/21/2012 - 10:19

The first version of the new wpkg tool is now available on SourceForge.net, it is version 0.7.0.

This version is a near complete replica of dpkg (outside of dselect commands.) So I suggest you start making use of this version instead of the older version 0.5.

You can directly download a binary version for Windows 32 or 64 bit then start creating packages!

Download: https://sourceforge.net/projects/unigw/files/wpkg/0.7.0/