denisebitca / ftpkg_cli

Terminal utility to install packages curated by the 42 Paris staff on 42 dumps

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ftpkg_cli's Issues

Support for an internal cache of preferred applications

Idea would be to save a cache of applications as they are installed and allow for reinstalling them with one command only.

./ftpkg_cli --restore

"/tmp/ftpkg(...) is a binary file. Display anyways?"

The less command can interpret color-formatted query files as binary files.

Solution is to replace less with less -Rf.

Testing server to allow for working on this outside of campus

Self-explanatory. Would be good to actually develop this correctly

Workaround for failing Flatpak runs through ftpkg_cli

Flatpak seems to be failing extremely often on 42Paris dumps. I'm running a workaround on my session which looks like this.

#!/bin/bash

PACKAGE_NAME="io.neovim.nvim"
EXEC_NAME="nvim"

LIB_LOCATION="/var/lib/flatpak/app/$PACKAGE_NAME/current/active/files/lib"
EXEC_LOCATION="/var/lib/flatpak/app/$PACKAGE_NAME/current/active/files/bin"
PATH="$EXEC_LOCATION:$PATH"
LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$LIB_LOCATION $EXEC_LOCATION/$EXEC_NAME $@

Would be interesting, upon install, for ftpkg_cli to automatically create a file in ~/.local/bin for everything it installs.
Would allow to circumvent issues with Flatpak.

Support for searching packages by name with --install

Would be interesting to be able to write...

./ftpkg_cli --install "Android Studio"

Support for password caching

Since the code constantly does docker-compose build followed by docker-compose run, it would be interesting to keep the password somewhere so that we don't need to load Docker all the time, just once.

Error handling inside the "query" option is non-existant

Whenever the upstream server is failing with a 404 or a 500, the query option doesn't warn the user at all. Instead, it shows this.

[not installed] 
        Package name: 
        Version: 
        Description: 

/tmp/ftpkg_1678786789 (END)

Would be kinder to leave a message of the sort, much like with install and uninstall options:

ftpkg_cli v0.3 - terminal utility for installing curated Flatpak packages by the 42 Paris team on 42 Paris dumps
Copyright (C) 2023 Denise BITCA 
This program comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it under certain conditions; see LICENSE file for more.

[FAIL] - here are more details:
(...)

Running ftpkg_cli outside of its directory yields a "No such file or directory" error

On run of any ftpkg_cli subcommands, if ftpkg_cli is not run in its own directory, ftpkg_cli returns something like this:

$ ftpkg_cli -q 
ftpkg_cli v0.1 - terminal utility for installing curated Flatpak packages by the 42 Paris team on 42 Paris dumps
Copyright (C) 2023 Denise BITCA 
This program comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it under certain conditions; see LICENSE file for more.

/mnt/nfs/homes/rbitca/bin/ftpkg_cli: line 161: ./ftpkg_cli_query_parse.sh: No such file or directory

Fix
Adding cd "$(dirname "$0")" at the start of ftpkg_cli and removing relative access from code, using $PWD instead.

Dumps that do not have "docker compose" cannot install or uninstall anything

If the machine has a separate docker-compose command, ftpkg_cli fails.

$> ftpkg_cli --install io.neovim.nvim
ftpkg_cli v0.1 - terminal utility for installing curated Flatpak packages by the 42 Paris team on 42 Paris dumps
Copyright (C) 2023 Denise BITCA 
This program comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it under certain conditions; see LICENSE file for more.

[INFO] - Running Docker to get the required ftpkg password. This can take a little bit of time. Especially on Mac dumps.
unknown shorthand flag: 'f' in -f
See 'docker --help'.

Usage:  docker [OPTIONS] COMMAND

(...)

Workaround:

None found yet

Longterm solutions are possible:

• Run a Dockerfile rather than docker-compose
• Auto-detect if "docker compose" is available or not and adjust accordingly