Mailing List Archive: glint?

glint?

Jun 22, 1999, 1:26 AM

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Hi,

I'm working on an installation-tool for linux/win without
any graphical interface but file-controlled.
I just got the german translated book about python from
Himstedt/Mätzel. They tell about RedHat who built their
installation-routine with python. Now I'd like to get more
informations about that. We've got only SuSE-linux-distributions
here, so I couldn't have a look at myself.
At homepage of RedHat I found:
ftp://ftp.redhat.com/redhat/old-releases/redhat-4.2/i386/RedHat/RPMS/glint-2.1.5-1.i386.rpm
but the server was down (or something else?!)..;-(
Is 'glint' the right thing I'm searching for?
Is it with free source???

Thanx,
Holger

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spamsink at magnetic-ink

Jun 22, 1999, 11:20 PM

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Holger Jannsen wrote:

> I'm working on an installation-tool for linux/win without
> any graphical interface but file-controlled.
>
> Is 'glint' the right thing I'm searching for?

Glint is a GUI-thing, but it's written in Python allright and I believe
it's GPL'ed, although I'm not sure.

//Klaus

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glint? [ In reply to ]

ke at gnu

Jun 23, 1999, 12:23 PM

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Holger Jannsen <holger@phoenix-edv.netzservice.de> writes:

| I'm working on an installation-tool for linux/win without any
| graphical interface but file-controlled.

How do you define "installation-tool"? There's "xrpm" that's able to
(de)install RPM packages nicely, and more. But "xrpm" has a GUI, too.

It comes with SuSE Linux.

--
Karl Eichwalder

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holger at phoenix-edv

Jun 25, 1999, 2:26 AM

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Hello Karl,

we just like to have a nice and easy tool written in python to
install our different products on different platforms like
WinNT, Win9X, Linux.
I started to write python-code a few weeks ago. I couldn't
imagine what a great publicity that language has. So I began
to write my own tool without looking for ready solutions.
Inside this book of Himstedt/Mätzel I found this notice
about RedHat, but I don't think, it's that what we need.

...
glint -- (Version 2.4.2, 429K)

Glint is a graphical interface to the RPM package management tool. It allows you to browse
packages installed on your system, verify and query those package. It
allows allows you to update packages with new versions and install new packages.
...

We don't like to manage RPM-packages. We need to untar/unzip many files
from installation medium, create directories, set registry-entries or environments,
links and so on...
If we decide, that the tool is ready for public, we'll open source, I think. Then
you could get a look at it, and perhaps it may be useful for somebody. But don't
expect too much, I'm a newbie in python, and there may be many objects that you
may be have done in a better way...;-)

ciao,
Holger Jannsen
www.phoenix-edv.com

Karl Eichwalder schrieb:
>
> Holger Jannsen <holger@phoenix-edv.netzservice.de> writes:
>
> | I'm working on an installation-tool for linux/win without any
> | graphical interface but file-controlled.
>
> How do you define "installation-tool"? There's "xrpm" that's able to
> (de)install RPM packages nicely, and more. But "xrpm" has a GUI, too.
>
> It comes with SuSE Linux.
>
> --
> Karl Eichwalder