Robert Collins wrote:
>
> I'm not clear not the hierarchy there - that reads like a list to me.
> You've got two clauses you can independently use to make a hierarchy and
> package dependencies - category:(i.e. the devel tarball belongs in
> XFree86 and in Devel) and requires: (i.e. the server package requires
> the fonts and the programs and ...)
>
That is a list of subdirectories. But it won't work since the each
package needs its own subdirectory. A better hiearchy would use the
components from the package names. Hopefully, multiple levels of
subdirectories will work.
xfree:
base:
xfree-base-4.2.0.tar.bz2
devel:
xfree-devel-4.2.0.tar.bz2
doc:
html:
xfree-doc-html-4.2.0.tar.bz2
ps:
xfree-doc-ps-4.2.0.tar.bz2
txt:
xfree-doc-txt-4.2.0.tar.bz2
fonts:
100dpi:
xfree-fonts-100dpi-4.2.0.tar.bz2
75dpi:
xfree-fonts-75dpi-4.2.0.tar.bz2
misc:
xfree-fonts-misc-4.2.0.tar.bz2
xfs:
xfree-xfs-4.2.0.tar.bz2
xnest:
xfree-xnest-4.2.0.tar.bz2
xprt:
xfree-xprt-4.2.0.tar.bz2
xvfb:
xfree-xvfb-4.2.0.tar.bz2
>
> Those refinements can be made at any point - there's no need to have it
> perfect on first release. Setup.exe is quite capable of handling files
> moving from one package to another now.
>
They were simple changes to the script I wrote to repackage the
distributed archives. I'll try to write proper setup.hint files for all
the packages.
- Ian
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