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+// Copyright © 2019 Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@gentoo.org>
+//
+// This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
+// it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+// the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
+// (at your option) any later version.
+//
+// This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+// but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+// MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
+// GNU General Public License for more details.
+//
+// You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along
+// with this program; if not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+
+// InstallerRecipe is a builder imeplementation.
+
+// It reads a Tree and spit it in human readable form (YAML), called recipe,
+// It also loads a tree (recipe) from a YAML (to a db, e.g. BoltDB), allowing to query it
+// with the solver, using the package object.
+package tree
+
+import (
+	"io/ioutil"
+	"os"
+	"path/filepath"
+
+	"github.com/mudler/luet/pkg/helpers"
+	pkg "github.com/mudler/luet/pkg/package"
+	"github.com/pkg/errors"
+)
+
+const (
+	FinalizerFile = "finalize.yaml"
+)
+
+func NewInstallerRecipe(db pkg.PackageDatabase) Builder { return &InstallerRecipe{Database: db} }
+
+// InstallerRecipe is the "general" reciper for Trees
+type InstallerRecipe struct {
+	PackageTree pkg.Tree
+	SourcePath  string
+	Database    pkg.PackageDatabase
+}
+
+func (r *InstallerRecipe) Save(path string) error {
+
+	for _, pid := range r.PackageTree.GetPackageSet().GetPackages() {
+
+		p, err := r.PackageTree.GetPackageSet().GetPackage(pid)
+		if err != nil {
+			return err
+		}
+		dir := filepath.Join(path, p.GetCategory(), p.GetName(), p.GetVersion())
+		os.MkdirAll(dir, os.ModePerm)
+		data, err := p.Yaml()
+		if err != nil {
+			return err
+		}
+		err = ioutil.WriteFile(filepath.Join(dir, DefinitionFile), data, 0644)
+		if err != nil {
+			return err
+		}
+		// Instead of rdeps, have a different tree for build deps.
+		finalizerPath := p.Rel(FinalizerFile)
+		if helpers.Exists(finalizerPath) { // copy finalizer file from the source tree
+			helpers.CopyFile(finalizerPath, filepath.Join(dir, FinalizerFile))
+		}
+
+	}
+	return nil
+}
+
+func (r *InstallerRecipe) Load(path string) error {
+
+	if r.Tree() == nil {
+		r.PackageTree = NewDefaultTree()
+	}
+
+	// tmpfile, err := ioutil.TempFile("", "luet")
+	// if err != nil {
+	// 	return err
+	// }
+	r.Tree().SetPackageSet(r.Database)
+	r.SourcePath = path
+
+	//r.Tree().SetPackageSet(pkg.NewBoltDatabase(tmpfile.Name()))
+	// TODO: Handle cleaning after? Cleanup implemented in GetPackageSet().Clean()
+
+	// the function that handles each file or dir
+	var ff = func(currentpath string, info os.FileInfo, err error) error {
+
+		if info.Name() != DefinitionFile {
+			return nil // Skip with no errors
+		}
+
+		dat, err := ioutil.ReadFile(currentpath)
+		if err != nil {
+			return errors.Wrap(err, "Error reading file "+currentpath)
+		}
+		pack, err := pkg.DefaultPackageFromYaml(dat)
+		if err != nil {
+			return errors.Wrap(err, "Error reading yaml "+currentpath)
+		}
+
+		// Path is set only internally when tree is loaded from disk
+		pack.SetPath(filepath.Dir(currentpath))
+		_, err = r.Tree().GetPackageSet().CreatePackage(&pack)
+		if err != nil {
+			return errors.Wrap(err, "Error creating package "+pack.GetName())
+		}
+
+		return nil
+	}
+
+	err := filepath.Walk(path, ff)
+	if err != nil {
+		return err
+	}
+	return nil
+}
+
+func (r *InstallerRecipe) Tree() pkg.Tree        { return r.PackageTree }
+func (r *InstallerRecipe) WithTree(t pkg.Tree)   { r.PackageTree = t }
+func (r *InstallerRecipe) GetSourcePath() string { return r.SourcePath }