Re: What is id or tag for?
On Thu, Mar 11, 2004 at 05:57:39PM +0100, Matthias Kurz wrote: On Thu, Mar 11, 2004, David M. Fetter wrote: I looked through the online documentation but can't seem to find any reference as to what the id or tag identifies. What does it mean? I noticed when I bootstrapped it on Solaris 8 the tag was dcl, but then when I'm now building it on Solaris 9 the tag changed to ulo. Why is that? Can this tag be changed or manipulated for custom rebuilt packages? That would be useful. Then we can keep essentially the same naming convention with our own modified packages but have a different tag to identify us. The tag identifies different OpenPKG instances on the same machine and is by default computed from the prefix. E.g.: /usr/local/opkg - ulo -- Michael van Elst Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] A potential Snark may lurk in every tree. __ The OpenPKG Projectwww.openpkg.org User Communication List [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: What is id or tag for?
On Thu, Mar 11, 2004, Michael van Elst wrote: I looked through the online documentation but can't seem to find any reference as to what the id or tag identifies. What does it mean? I noticed when I bootstrapped it on Solaris 8 the tag was dcl, but then when I'm now building it on Solaris 9 the tag changed to ulo. Why is that? Can this tag be changed or manipulated for custom rebuilt packages? That would be useful. Then we can keep essentially the same naming convention with our own modified packages but have a different tag to identify us. The tag identifies different OpenPKG instances on the same machine and is by default computed from the prefix. E.g.: /usr/local/opkg - ulo Yes, and while in OpenPKG 1.3 the tag was hard-coded to be a compressed string derived from the instance prefix, in OpenPKG 2.0 it is an arbitrary string including some possible expansion constructs like compat (for the old 1.3 prefix derivation), loc (for the 2.0 prefix derivation), opt (for UUID v3 tags based on the package options), uuid (for UUID v1 tags), time (for the current date and time), user, group and host. The tag is usually specified during bootstrapping with option --tag but it can be overridden for each package on the rpm --rebuild command line with an option --tag, too. Ralf S. Engelschall [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.engelschall.com __ The OpenPKG Projectwww.openpkg.org User Communication List [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: What is id or tag for?
On Thu, Mar 11, 2004, Ralf S. Engelschall wrote: On Thu, Mar 11, 2004, Michael van Elst wrote: I looked through the online documentation but can't seem to find any reference as to what the id or tag identifies. What does it mean? I noticed when I bootstrapped it on Solaris 8 the tag was dcl, but then when I'm now building it on Solaris 9 the tag changed to ulo. Why is that? Can this tag be changed or manipulated for custom rebuilt packages? That would be useful. Then we can keep essentially the same naming convention with our own modified packages but have a different tag to identify us. The tag identifies different OpenPKG instances on the same machine and is by default computed from the prefix. E.g.: /usr/local/opkg - ulo Yes, and while in OpenPKG 1.3 the tag was hard-coded to be a compressed string derived from the instance prefix, in OpenPKG 2.0 it is an arbitrary string including some possible expansion constructs like compat (for the old 1.3 prefix derivation), loc (for the 2.0 prefix derivation), opt (for UUID v3 tags based on the package options), uuid (for UUID v1 tags), time (for the current date and time), user, group and host. The tag is usually specified during bootstrapping with option --tag but it can be overridden for each package on the rpm --rebuild command line with an option --tag, too. This reminds me of a question I've meant to ask many times, I seem to remember reading about the ability to clone packages from one instance to another (e.g. gcc, perl, etc.), but haven't been able to find the documentation. HTML_RELIGIOUS_RANT role=ON I find the on-line web documentation very difficult to read as it seems to use preformatted text with small fonts that require that I scroll horizontally even on a 21in monitor with 1400x1050 resolution. HTML was designed to make it easy to read information regardless of the browser, and documentation with things like Docbook don't force fonts or formatting which I find much easier to read. /HTML_RELIGIOUS_RANT Bill -- INTERNET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bill Campbell; Celestial Software LLC UUCP: camco!bill PO Box 820; 6641 E. Mercer Way FAX:(206) 232-9186 Mercer Island, WA 98040-0820; (206) 236-1676 URL: http://www.celestial.com/ ``Democracy Is Mob Rule with Income Taxes'' __ The OpenPKG Projectwww.openpkg.org User Communication List [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: What is id or tag for?
On Thu, Mar 11, 2004, Ralf S. Engelschall wrote: On Thu, Mar 11, 2004, Michael van Elst wrote: I looked through the online documentation but can't seem to find any reference as to what the id or tag identifies. What does it mean? I noticed when I bootstrapped it on Solaris 8 the tag was dcl, but then when I'm now building it on Solaris 9 the tag changed to ulo. Why is that? Can this tag be changed or manipulated for custom rebuilt packages? That would be useful. Then we can keep essentially the same naming convention with our own modified packages but have a different tag to identify us. The tag identifies different OpenPKG instances on the same machine and is by default computed from the prefix. E.g.: /usr/local/opkg - ulo CRAZY !!! Thanks a lot for the explanation ! You cannot imagine how much this buggered me :-) (mk) -- Matthias Kurz; Fuldastr. 3; D-28199 Bremen; VOICE +49 421 53 600 47 Im prämotorischen Cortex kann jeder ein Held sein. (bdw) __ The OpenPKG Projectwww.openpkg.org User Communication List [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: What is id or tag for?
On Thu, Mar 11, 2004, David M. Fetter wrote: I looked through the online documentation but can't seem to find any reference as to what the id or tag identifies. [...] Most of the mystery was already revealed. You find information in the news.txt [1] and upgrade.txt [2] documents. Search for the terms tag and new tag feature. [1] http://cvs.openpkg.org/openpkg-re/news.txt [2] http://cvs.openpkg.org/openpkg-re/upgrade.txt -- [EMAIL PROTECTED], Cable Wireless __ The OpenPKG Projectwww.openpkg.org User Communication List [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: What is id or tag for?
On Thu, 2004-03-11 at 10:00, Ralf S. Engelschall wrote: The tag is usually specified during bootstrapping with option --tag but it can be overridden for each package on the rpm --rebuild command line with an option --tag, too. Spectacular! Thanks again. -- David M. Fetter - UNIX Systems Administrator Portland State University - www.oit.pdx.edu __ The OpenPKG Projectwww.openpkg.org User Communication List [EMAIL PROTECTED]
