Am Montag, den 25.04.2005, 10:56 -0400 schrieb Ravi Desai: > I think this is a good idea. Having seperate info packages would be > nice. We could just name them 'info-foobar.pkg.tar.gz', like how the > perl modules are named currently. Of course, it would be useful probably > only for devs or packagers or something (I think). I know I don't have a > need for info. It never hurt to have an option. > Ravster.
I find it useful. :-) I did a quick hack on makepkg now. It uses all the makepkg options, so that dependencies are being built and such things. My script is called makeinfo (surprise *g*). Just take an Arch package that produces info files (like texinfo). Do the usual abs stuff and call makeinfo instead of makepkg (of course makeinfo should be in your path). makeinfo creates a package named like 'info-foobar.pkg.tar.gz' for a package foobar. So texinfo becomes info-texinfo. The package contains only info files and places them to /usr/info. I did a quick test with texinfo. If you'd like to test it, please do so. Enjoy. :-) > > Daniel Bendel wrote: > > > ...(snipped)... > > So personally I was thinking about making a "makeinfo" script, similar > > to makepkg. It would create only the info files (no /usr/share/doc > > files or man pages). I think this is better because: > > > > - you can provide separate packages in binary format, so you don't > > have to compile everything (this is nice with the libc info pages *g*) > > - it doesn't break current installations > > - if someone just doesn't feel he wants info, then he just won't > > install the package.info package > > - it doesn't need makepkg patching > > - it doesn't hurt the makepkg developers' ethical attitude towards > > info :-) > > > > I did not do any concrete approach, this just came into my mind. Maybe > > I'll give it a shot when I'm back home. > > > > What do you think? > > > > Cheers, > > Daniel > > _______________________________________________ > arch mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/arch
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