2012/6/1 <[email protected]> > I discovered (by reading the source Luke) that adding a file of the form > CSWfoo.postinstall to DISTFILES uses it as a postinstall script for the > foo package.
Yes, I find it a bit silly. I understand that there needs to be a way to declare that there's a postinstall script, but the current way is strange. By the way, this is an excellent example of why people who already use GAR are next to useless at documenting. When I asked myself “what's there to be told about DISTFILES”, I only thought “it's just the file you want to unpack”, and I forgot about the postinstall thing altogether. If I asked myself “how do I create a postinstall script?”, I would immediately say: “You put it in files/ and you add it to DISTFILES”. But if you ask from the DISTFILES direction, the postinstall issue doesn't come up. This is how indexing works in the brain, I guess. > This feature is not documented... Are there some other magic related to > DISTFILES? In the affirmative, it should be documented by the > knowledgeable persons (among which I'm not). I just added the information about CSWfoo.postinstall. If there's more magic, I'm not sure, I can't think of anything right now. Maciej _______________________________________________ maintainers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.opencsw.org/mailman/listinfo/maintainers .:: This mailing list's archive is public. ::.
