[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bertrand Lupart) wrote: > > If you want to make packages for Fink, yoiu'll need to use the .info file > > format. Please read the documentation on the Fink site (http://fink.sf.net), > > especially the FAQ and the Packaging Manual. > > That's what i was doing, but i didn't see anything related to debian > files. > > I don't have any packaging experience, neither on darwin neither on > debian so please forgive me if i ask stupid questions. > > I'm working on the pike language <http://pike.roxen.com/> > > I'm looking for splitting the package into several one like on debian ie > the debian/pike7.2-mysql.files contains the names of the files to be put > in the package pike7.2-mysql, since the mysql pike module can't be made > without making pike (but pike can be made without its mysql module). > This way pike core is separated from pike modules, and it is good > because each module requires lots of dependencies. > > I don't find something related on the packaging manual, nor in the > packages. > > Is that what we call a metapackage? Is there a way to do this?
The only way to do that right now is to make several fink packages based on the same source, and to remove some of the files from each of the packages (as part of the InstallScript). We are working on an extension to fink which will make this easier in the future. -- Dave _______________________________________________ Fink-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-devel
