On Fri, Nov 02, 2001 at 12:23:12PM -0500, Roth, Kevin P. wrote: >1) Under "Package File Naming", I see "The first release of a package >for a given vendor version may optionally skip the suffix". I take >that to mean that > cURL-7.9-1.tar.gz >and > cURL-7.9.tar.gz >are both acceptable? Is that true?
No. There are some packages in the tree currently that do that but it is not correct. I've changed the wording. >2) Under "Making Packages", I think the "standard" for binary packages >is to leave off the initial "/" on filenames inside the tarball. E.g.: > usr/doc/cURL-7.9/README >instead of > /usr/doc/cURL-7.9/README >I think the point is to allow someone to expand the binary package into >some other location (besides "/") if desired for whatever reason. I think this is implied by: * Binary packages are extracted in /, include all file paths from the root in your archive. Actually, this should be: /usr/doc/cygwin/cURL-7.9-1.README or /usr/doc/cygwin/cURL-7.9.README >3) I realize this one is kind of nit-picky, but the 4th bullet under >"Making Packages" mentions a "file" named /usr/doc/foo-vendor, when in >fact this should call it a "directory". Actually, this is correct. This should be a file. cgf