Charles Steinkuehler wrote: > > > Here's the keywords my script understands: > > > > keywords["Name"]=1 > > keywords["Version"]=1 > > keywords["Release"]=1 > > keywords["Packager"]=1 > > keywords["Packaged"]=1 > > keywords["Keywords"]=1 > > keywords["Description"]=1 > > keywords["URL"]=1 > > keywords["License"]=1 > > keywords["Group"]=1 > > > > ....and predefined licenses: > > > > licenses["GPL"]="http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html"; > > <snip> > > Why not just a: > keywords["LicenseURL"]
Because the text (*.desc) is about the license the software is released under. The URL is a feature of the Perl script which generates the HTML page. The URL is just a nice-ness; the important thing is the actual license. > How do your fields compare against those stored by rpm & deb? No idea... > Should we maybe start a sub-project to work on a new packaging format? I've > got a lot of various ideas on possible formats and features, but no time to > play with them :< I have a strong faith in the current format - even if we package up "newfangledsoftware 2.2.2" as a *.lrp with glibc 2.0, it'll still work in that LRP 2.9.4 somebody's running. If we add a new file (*.desc) to the /var/lib/lrpkg directory, the package STILL works in that LRP 2.9.4 ... _______________________________________________ Leaf-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-devel
