On Fri, 2002-04-19 at 09:03, David Douthitt wrote: > On Friday 19 April 2002 08:13 am, you wrote: > > On Fri, 2002-04-19 at 00:19, David Douthitt wrote: > > > > I'm not keen on that either. Maybe I'm influenced by my RPM bias > > > - but a file of: > > > > > > Tag: <value> > > > Tag: <value> > > > Tag: <value> > > > > > > Seems good enough to me. > > > OK. The "Tag: <value>" will be harder for me to parse, but if you > > need to access the information in the file from a running LEAF > > system I don't see many options. :-( > > I can concieve of a scenario like this: > > A person downloads the LEAF Resource CDROM, then boots with it and > uses the resulting system as an anonymous FTP site, making the LEAF > Repository available to all.
David, Nice idea, this gives local sites a repository of our packages to work with. Have you attempted to create an iso that provides this ftp package server? > This could even be used inside of a corporate or similar setting, > where packages could be downloaded elsewhere (across the network) at > will. This sounds great. :-) > > Now that we're going to use the "Tag: <value>" format, don't we > > need something like autospec or dpkg-gencontrol for package > > developers to use? > > I'd like to keep it simple, myself. Having built a few (few....) > RPMs, I can say that the full *.spec file is definitely overkill for > LEAF.... :-) Agreed. However, I believe we need to define a minimum set of required fields, or the file is of limited value. Will you want to use this file for limited dependency checks? Also, what modifications to lrcfg and apkg are necessary? > I've never used (or heard of) autospec, so I can't say what that is. http://www.npsnet.com/danf/software/ autospec, a program which creates Red Hat Package Manager (RPM) spec files automatically from a tar ball. -- Mike Noyes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://sourceforge.net/users/mhnoyes/ http://leaf-project.org/ _______________________________________________ Leaf-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-devel
