On 4/14/02 at 11:20 AM, Mike Noyes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > David outlines a package description file in his > "Developing for LRP" guide. The format follows. > > /var/lib/lrpkg/pkg.desc > Name: upx > Version: 1.20 > Release: 1 > Packager: David Douthitt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Packaged: Wed Jul 18 09:40:25 CDT 2001 > Keywords: compressor compress > Description: Use UPX to compress executables and kernels! > URL: http://upx.sourceforge.net/ > License: GPL2 > Group: Utilities/Compression > > I propose the following changes:
Comments follow... > use program name instead of package name, Thought those were supposed to be (close) to the same? Probably the actual name of the binary or program should be used. > use ISO 8601 date format, I figured the date format could be whatever - ISO 8601 works for me.... > use version format from pkg.version, Yes and no... > add glibc version, Good idea... > remove "Keywords", "Release", and "Group". Bad idea. Keywords allow basic searches: cd /var/lib/lrpkg grep -li "^Keywords: .*keyword*" | sed 's/.desc$//' Release allows you to separate releases from versions. Group is one of the best reasons for *.desc: what category IS this package - allows nice creation of FTP repositories. > Name: Ultimate Packer for eXecutables Ouch! That's neither a program name nor a package name. The program is "upx" > Version: 1.20-1 upx is not version 1.20-1 but version 1.20 (at least in this example). > Packager: David Douthitt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Packaged: 2001-07-18 > glibc: 2.1.3 > Description: UPX is a free, portable, extendable, high-performance > executable packer for several different executable formats. It > achieves an excellent compression ratio and offers very fast > decompression. Your executables suffer no memory overhead or > other drawbacks. > URL: http://upx.sourceforge.net/ > License: GPL2 -- David Douthitt UNIX Systems Administrator HP-UX, Unixware, Linux [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Leaf-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-devel
