Would someone please take a look at how swbis could fit into our design for GNU packages?
I have already looked at it briefly, and found it to complex for something simple as taring up a directory. One has to write a special configuration file that contains all kinds of redundant information, the directory structure was also far more complex than what it needs to be (i.e. extracting the tarball won't give you the classic directory layout, but something a bit different where some commands live in special subdirectories, and documents in another special subdirectory). This is one example of a package I found that was created with swbis: POSIX-Software-2.1/catalog/dfiles/INDEX POSIX-Software-2.1/catalog/dfiles/INFO POSIX-Software-2.1/catalog/dfiles/signature POSIX-Software-2.1/catalog/dfiles/chksum_md5 POSIX-Software-2.1/catalog/POSIX-Software/pfiles/INFO POSIX-Software-2.1/catalog/POSIX-Software/agent/INFO POSIX-Software-2.1/catalog/POSIX-Software/agent/configure POSIX-Software-2.1/catalog/POSIX-Software/commands/INFO POSIX-Software-2.1/catalog/POSIX-Software/commands/configure POSIX-Software-2.1/catalog/POSIX-Software/man/INFO POSIX-Software-2.1/catalog/INDEX POSIX-Software-2.1/POSIX-Software/agent/usr/lbin/swagent POSIX-Software-2.1/POSIX-Software/agent/usr/sbin/swagentd POSIX-Software-2.1/POSIX-Software/commands/usr/sbin/swinstall POSIX-Software-2.1/POSIX-Software/commands/usr/sbin/swpackage POSIX-Software-2.1/POSIX-Software/man/usr/man/man4/swpackage.4 POSIX-Software-2.1/POSIX-Software/man/usr/man/man8/swagent.8 POSIX-Software-2.1/POSIX-Software/man/usr/man/man8/swagentd.8 POSIX-Software-2.1/POSIX-Software/man/usr/man/man8/swconfig.8 POSIX-Software-2.1/POSIX-Software/man/usr/man/man8/swinstall.8 POSIX-Software-2.1/POSIX-Software/man/usr/man/man8/swlist.8 POSIX-Software-2.1/POSIX-Software/man/usr/man/man8/swpackage.8 POSIX-Software-2.1/POSIX-Software/man/usr/man/man8/swremove.8 POSIX-Software-2.1/POSIX-Software/man/usr/man/man8/swverify.8 POSIX-Software-2.1/POSIX-Software/man/usr/man/man8/swcopy.8 Not being intimate with the POSIX standard that documents this, I don't know how much one can change things to make them sane. _______________________________________________ gnu-system-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-system-discuss
