On Tue, Apr 09, 2002 at 05:56:36PM -0700, Ian Burrell wrote: >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.
There's no need to go into too much information in the ldesc, fwiw. And, the sdesc field can be pretty brief, too, IMO. If you have Red Hat linux installed somewhere, you might be able to get some info from the 'rpm -q -i' command, applying it to various installed XFree86 packages. Btw, should the directory be called xfree or xfree86 or XFree86? I assume the category for this should be XFree86, right? cgf
