icat-package-manager 0.0.4

A CLI tool for automating installation of ICAT components

ICAT Package Manager

icatpackagemanager is a python package that provides a CLI for automatically downloading and installing ICAT components on a local application server.

Usage

Invoke the CLI with python -m icatpackagemanager, or simply ipm if installed with a tool like pipx. Use -h or --help with any of the commands for full details.

Available commands:

• list - lists all components available from the repo, and which are installed
• list <component> - lists available and installed versions of the component
• install <component>:
  • Checks for installed versions of the component
  • Checks for available versions of the component
  • If there is no newer version, do nothing.
  • Otherwise, download latest distro, and unzips it into install directory
  • If there is no previous version, stop and prompt for configuration
  • Otherwise, copy config from previous version, and (not implemented yet) run the setup script
• install <component> <version> - installs specific version of a package

Terminology

• Repository/repo is a website hosting ICAT packages. By default, this is the official repo.icatproject.org.
• A component is one of the ICAT projects ie. icat.server, authn.simple, etc. Components can have many versions, in the format x.y.z-<suffix>.
• A package is a specific version of a component. Packages are:
  • 'Available' if it exists in the repo
  • 'Installed' if it exists in the install directory
  • 'Deployed' if it's currently running on the application server
• A distro is a zipfile containing a built package which can be installed
• The distro cache is a directory containing distros downloaded from the repo
• The install directory is where distros are unpacked so that they can be deployed

Planned work

• Add a deploy command or --deploy option on install to run setup scripts