Hi Stuart, I agree with Michael, the best thing to do is to create a package in the "old" format. That means you will need to write a config.xml, build RPMs and put them into the distro/$DISTRO$VERSION-$ARCH subdirectory. Also put the srpms to SRPMS/ .
The basic idea of the new opkg format is to still keep the old format (with some changes: new config.xml format, new API script names) including all RPMs. This is something called "the developer view" of the package. A package in developer view consists of: config.xml scripts/ distro/.../RPMS and DEBs SRPMS/ [testing/] [docs/] The metapackages produced by opkgc are not here, yet! Maybe we should/could store them also in the developer view, but we didn't talk about that, yet, AFAIK. For getting "the user view" we need to run opkgc to produce the metapackages and move the metapackages as well as the RPMs to repositories. Therefore the user will only need to see repositories. An opkg in that format consists of - RPMs for the package - RPMs for the metapackages, describing dependencies for client/master, also containing the scripts/, testing/ and docs/. I hope that helps... Regards, Erich On Wednesday 04 July 2007 04:17, Michael Edwards wrote: > Well, one option is to make it in the current, better documented > package format and convert it to the new format with a script which > was written to convert the existing packages (also undocumented). > > As the documentation guy, I apologize, but I have not gotten around to > looking at the documentation yet, let alone trying to make a package > of some sort myself. > > If you have specific questions, I am sure Jean or someone else > familiar with opkg will try and answer them. > > On 7/3/07, Stuart Archibald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Dear all, > > > > I have just had a quick word with bernardl on IRC and he said to bring to > > your attention that I feel that there are some documentation/clarity issues > > to do with OPKGC. I am struggling and want people to know why so things can > > be made better. > > > > I have been plodding along with MPITB (MPI Tool Box) for GNU Octave > > packaging and development and have got to the stage where I want to package > > up my rpms so that they become an OSCAR package. So I went to the wiki and > > unfortunately got very confused... > > > > I first visited > > http://svn.oscar.openclustergroup.org/trac/oscar/wiki/BuildOpkg > > this page give a brief, "you need to build packages this way now" message > > and points you to > > http://svn.oscar.openclustergroup.org/trac/oscar/wiki/opkg_opkgc > > . This page points you to a svn co of opkgsrc/tools/opkgc which I couldn't > > find, I guessed after a while that it meant here: > > http://svn.oscar.openclustergroup.org/trac/oscar/browser/pkgsrc/opkgc > > > > I am not sure if the wiki pages are just unfinished but their fragmentation > > made them hard to follow. > > > > On building and reading the docs from svn I am greatly confused about how to > > use opkgc and what I need to do to get my rpms into a package. The old > > manual has some comprehensive instructions on how to actually make a package > > and I feel confident that I could do so. Whereas I feel that the docs on > > opkgc/opkg are good at describing why and what the tools do but not how to > > use them for development of packages. I realise that this is devel stuff and > > docs tend to come later and I appreciate the effort to make things easier > > via opkgc. > > > > Sadly, I'm not sure how to even start, I will figure it out eventually as I > > usually do, but not coming from a computing background clear "this is how > > you do it" instructions would be lovely. I'll try and remember to make notes > > as I *slowly* plod along providing I can figure out how to go forwards and > > perhaps they could be used to start a manual. > > > > Thank you for your time, > > > > Kind Regards, > > > > Stuart Archibald (Imperial College London.) ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ _______________________________________________ Oscar-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/oscar-devel
