Is there a process that will take the files in SOURCE/(PKG)/ and make them a
SOURCES.ZIP file?
I explore a bit and saw that some packages are just source files (not
compressed)... and some packages have sources.zip.
So I begin to think that there is nothing special that produce SOURCES.ZIP
files... and so, that would means my source files should be
8.3 compatible (for fdnpkg to accept them).
Using zip -k (yeah... I was using my GUI Zip archive... that was causing
incompatibility with fdnpkg... but install zip that I believe will be
compatible) that coerce
long file names to compatible DOS filenames and that check for conflicts with
truncated files... I could generate 8.3 ok files... but with very very annoying
and dangerous
efforts (any change risk to make the code not to compile I think).
Remember... source code for DJGPP packages are source code used on Linux
(mostly)... so they were not designed with 8.3 filenames... and could even
contains some unicode sometimes.. I think.
Also, some are very big like:
http://www.delorie.com/pub/djgpp/current/v2gnu/gcc1220s.zip
which is 116 Mb zipped. (For this particular case I proposed a separate source
package: https://gitlab.com/FreeDOS/devel/dj_gcc/-/issues/1)
So my intention goes toward in most cases, to just include the zip files
dowloaded from DJGPP (renamed SOURCES.ZIP ... or not renamed... unsure about
that).
This message is mostly a ... does it seems an appropriate decision?
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