On Fri, 2001-11-02 at 19:21, Charles S. Wilson wrote: > Robert Collins wrote: >
> > Oh, the other point: There's no need for the tarballs to change if they > > current extract into the correct location. (/ IIRC) > > > Well, the *names* need to change. Currently, they are named cryptically > like "Xbin.tgz" and "Xf100.tgz" and "Xetc.tgz". No version numbers -- > and the source package is monolithic, even though there are many > "binary" packages. It'll probably be necessary to have "fake" src > packages (see libncurses5-X.Y-Z-src.tar.bz2) for most of these, and then > just one "real" src package. Yup. Thats simply a case of a few mv commands though, right? > Also, it is unclear whether the current division into these specific > separate binary tarballs is the appropriate division for official > setup.exe-style packages -- although keeping the current divisions would > be the easiest thing to do. I believe that the division is created by an XFree86 official script, and that they therefore correspond very closely to what debian/redhat/suse et al distribute. > My point: work is needed, and decisions must be made. And that ought to > wait until after the new setup is unleashed and stabilized -- but that's > what you said in the other message, anyway. So we agree. Yup :}. Ok, I think setup's ready... what next? <grin> Rob
