[jira] [Created] (KARAF-3901) Automatic Lifecycle of features

["Vratko Polak (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

Vratko Polak created KARAF-3901:
-----------------------------------

             Summary: Automatic Lifecycle of features
                 Key: KARAF-3901
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KARAF-3901
             Project: Karaf
          Issue Type: Improvement
          Components: karaf-feature
            Reporter: Vratko Polak
            Priority: Minor


This is a wish/improvement to support Automatic Lifecycle of features (and bundles and configfiles).
(Basically the same thing as "aptitude" does for Debian packages.)

Explicitly installed features would have "manual" installation flag set,
others (needed as dependencies) will be called "automatic".
As soon as an automatic feature has no manual ancestor,
it would be (attempted to get) uninstalled.

So that "feature:install ${top-level-feature}"
would install the tree, marking only the top level feature as manual;
and "feature:uninstall ${top-level-feature}" (perhaps with some switch, such as --uninstall-unused)
would do what ordinary user expects it to do, namely
it would remove the top-level feature
together with (now unused part of) all its dependencies.

Note that handling of config files would be left to bundles, they should know by themselves when and how to "un-apply" any applied configuration file.



--
This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA
(v6.3.4#6332)