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It's been a long while but no, I've not abandoned the project! In fact, for
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past couple of weeks, I've been working on some huge things, and it's time
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to reveal them all!
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## Biggest rework so far: The packaging system
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MatterLinux package manager, one of the core components of the distribution was not written
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a long time ago. It was written around the end of 2023, and the first release was just before
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the first MatterLinux release. Even though it's not that old, it's honestly not the best code
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I've written, and I've learned a lot since then. So I decided to rewrite it about a month ago.
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But while working on the rewrite, I began to question other parts of the MatterLinux package ecosystem,
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you see MatterLinux has a simple packaging system, it's not the best or not the most convenient but it
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gets the job done. When I originally I designed it, I didn't know much about software packaging, I still
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don't, however now I know enough to point out some of the big issues with the MatterLinux packaging.
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So while working on the rewrite I decided to take the things a step further, and rework the entire
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packaging system.
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And after long weeks of work, I think the project getting close to the release of the new
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MatterLinux packaging tools and scripts.
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So as of today, I made the few of the new projects public over on Gitea:
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- [libmp](https://git.matterlinux.xyz/matter/libmp): MatterLinux package management library (will be used to build the new package manager)
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- [mp-pool](https://git.matterlinux.xyz/matter/mp-pool): Package pool build script(s) (will replace mp-repo)
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- [mp-build](https://git.matterlinux.xyz/matter/mp-build): Package build script(s) (will replace mp-repo)
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- [base-new](https://git.matterlinux.xyz/matter/base-new): New base repo (will replace base, eventually will be renamed base)
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You might be wondering what's special or different about this new packaging system. Well there are a lot of things, however
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you will have to wait till I release the new wiki pages, or you can go read some source code and figure it out yourself.
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All the new tools, scripts, wiki pages and the everything will be released with the next release (24.05), so yeah, look out for that!
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## Finally some package updates!
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While repackaging everything for the new packaging system, I decided to update some of the packages as well. So yeah, there
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will be a full repo update in the next release. After the next release, I will also start working on some security updates as well.
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## When???
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I can't really provide an actual date for the next release, I keep going back and forward about the actual design of different things,
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so yeah, it may take a while.
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I think that's about it for now, I will keep posting about new stuff as I keep working. Thank you for reading and I hope I'll see you
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in the next post.
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