On 16 Jul 2001, Thayne Harbaugh wrote:
> On 13 Jul 2001 20:56:51 -0600, Curtis Veit wrote:
> > >
> > > libgii/
> > > libgii/packages/
> > > libgii/packages/debian/
> > > libgii/packages/rpm/
> > > libgii/packages/win32/
> > > libgii/packages/bsd/
> > > libgii/packages/solaris/
> > >
> > >
> >
> > This looks good to me as well except that the directory
> > does not actually hold packages, so perhaps one of these?
> >
> > dist/
> > package/
> > packing/
> > or
> > pack/
> >
> >
> > Any comments on the suggestion to *only* support
> > the generation of the source file for distros
> > with the build system?
>
> I dislike pruning out a few files from the source tree for this. It
> creates more overhead for packaging each individual package type.
Well, we assume you don't create packages every day, do you?
> The other problem is that sometimes people want to work with multiple
> packaging types but fetch their source from a single channel.
> This isn't the same as a Linux kernel where PPC doesn't care what's in
> linux/arch/i386 linux/arch/sparc linux/arch/mips etc. These are just
> a few tiny files.
>
> I don't like pruning out files.
How about creating symlinks (i.e. from libgii/debian to
libgii/dist/debian) for doing this job. The result should be the same,
then.
CU,
Christoph Egger
E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
