PISI - Packages Installed Succesfully as Intended
PISI package manager of Pardus linux distribution. The original development branch by the original author. It is prononunced as "pee-see".
##Synopsis:
PISI is the next-gen package manager initially developed for the PARDUS distribution in 2005. In Turkish, PISI means "kitty", and like a kitty, it is featureful and small. Multiple Linux distributions have adopted or tried PISI.
Some of its distinctive features:
- Implemented in python
- Efficient and small
- Package sources are written in XML and python
- Fast database access implemented with Berkeley DB
- Integrates low-level and high-level package operations (dependency resolution)
- Framework approach to build applications and tools upon
- Comprehensive CLI and a user-friendly qt GUI (distributed separately)
- Extremely simple package construction
PISI is quite portable and appropriate for embedded systems, and is a comprehensive packaging solution for any OS environment beyond Pardus derivatives.
##Package contents:
- build: build scripts
- doc: documentation
- pisi: PISI python package sources
- po: translations
- scripts: additional PISI tools
- tmp: temporary directory used for testing
- tests: unit tests, stress tests and test scripts
- tools: misc. tools used by developers
##Basic usage:
PISI is self-documenting. To see help about basic usage, simply issue
$ pisi --help
Usage: pisi [options] <command> [arguments]
where <command> is one of:
add-repo (ar) - Add a repository
build (bi) - Build PISI packages
check - Verify installation
clean - Clean stale locks
configure-pending (cp) - Configure pending packages
delete-cache (dc) - Delete cache files
emerge (em) - Build and install PISI source packages from repository
graph - Graph package relations
help (?) - Prints help for given commands
index (ix) - Index PISI files in a given directory
info - Display package information
install (it) - Install PISI packages
list-available (la) - List available packages in the repositories
list-components (lc) - List available components
list-installed (li) - Print the list of all installed packages
list-pending (lp) - List pending packages
list-repo (lr) - List repositories
list-sources (ls) - List available sources
list-upgrades (lu) - List packages to be upgraded
rebuild-db (rdb) - Rebuild Databases
remove (rm) - Remove PISI packages
remove-repo (rr) - Remove repositories
search (sr) - Search packages
search-file (sf) - Search for a file
update-repo (ur) - Update repository databases
upgrade (up) - Upgrade PISI packages
Use "pisi help <command>" for help on a specific command.
Options:
--version show program's version number and exit
-h, --help show this help message and exit
$ pisi help install
install (it):
Install PISI packages
Usage: install <package1> <package2> ... <packagen>
You may use filenames, URI's or package names for packages. If you have
specified a package name, it should exist in a specified repository.
You can also specify components instead of package names, which will be
expanded to package names.
Options:
--version show program's version number and exit
-h, --help show this help message and exit
-B, --ignore-comar bypass comar configuration agent
-S, --bypass-safety bypass safety switch
-n, --dry-run do not perform any action, just show what would be
done
-E, --ignore-dependency
do not take dependency information into account
--reinstall Reinstall already installed packages
--ignore-file-conflicts
Ignore file conflicts
--ignore-build-no do not take build no into account.
-D DESTDIR, --destdir=DESTDIR
change the system root for pisi commands
-y, --yes-all assume yes in all yes/no queries
-u USERNAME, --username=USERNAME
-p PASSWORD, --password=PASSWORD
-v, --verbose detailed output
-d, --debug show debugging information
-N, --no-color print like a man
-L BANDWIDTH_LIMIT, --bandwidth-limit=BANDWIDTH_LIMIT
Keep bandwidth usage under specified KB's
PISI has an advanced CLI tool that allows you to access both low-level and high-level package operations easily. You can arrange repos, view package DB's, build, install, upgrade, remove, and search packages, install packages from sources as in Gentoo distribution with an equivalent emerge command.
You may find extra tools in the scripts directory:
$ ls -G scripts
calc-build-order.py fix_old_metadata_files.py repostats.py
cat-db.py lspisi residuary-binary.py
check-source-repo.py missing-binary.py rmcomp-source-repo.py
convert_history.py pisimedia unpisi
fetchAll.py pisish
find-lib-deps.py repo-diff.py
You may also try pisish, a PISI CLI that works like a shell:
$ pisish
Welcome to the interactive PISI shell.
Type "help" to see a list of commands.
To end the session, type "exit".
You can run system commands by prefixing with '!' as in '!ls'.
Copyright 2006 (c) Pardus.
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Eray Ozkural, PhD