Package metadata

[Boris-Dimov]

I think every archive with a package should contain a simple text file, which describes things like name, version, dependencies, author etc. We just have to agree on a format, i.e. what it will contain.

Also it would be nice if the archive contained a list of where each file / directory should land, i.e. where in the FS it should be copied to.

This is just future-proofing stuff.

[Kaper365]

Imo we'd have to create a central database accessible under frue-project.org with a list of pkgs and their respective metadata

[Boris-Dimov]

That too
But also every package should have it in itself, kinda like .deb packages

[Kaper365]

I mean the fpkg utility would access the db and return metadata + download link and thus we wouldn't have to ship unnecessary stuff with packages

Metadata would be copied from remote db to a local fpkg-db with metadata of local packages

[Boris-Dimov]

Let's do the metadata this way:
the file will contain entries in the way of
Key=Value

Mandatory entries will be:
PackageName=(self-explanatory)
Ver=(version)
Repo=(repository name)
RepoURL=(repository URL)
Description=(human-readable description)
FileList=(filename of the list of ordinary files)
ConfigsList=(filename of the list of configs)

Optional entries will be:
Author=(author name)
and others that y'all deem necessary

[Kaper365]

Imo "Author" should be necessary, this way people'll be able to trace packages back to original author and it'd reduce suspicion of malicious packages