On 26 March 2012 07:43, Juan Pablo Carbajal <carba...@ifi.uzh.ch> wrote:
> 2012/3/26 c. <carlo.defa...@gmail.com>:
>>
>> On 26 Mar 2012, at 00:59, Carnë Draug wrote:
>>
>>> That's what I meant. But I don't think such situation would demand
>>> much more from the package mantainer, a perl script could be easily
>>> cooked that would deal with the mutiple inst/ files. The only problem
>>> would be with mutiple src/ and but unless the package has complex
>>> Makefile, it shouldn't be much more work to adjust it at release time.
>>>
>>> Carnë
>>
>> Actually there is no multible inst/ directories, what Juan Pablo refers to 
>> as subpackages
>> are just subdirectories of one single inst/ directory, have a look at 'ocs' 
>> or 'geometry'
>> for an example.
>>
>> What one needs to do is just to descend recursively into such directories 
>> and install files in them.
>> The only difficulty I see with this approach is dealing automaticallywith 
>> 'private' directories
>> and class directories.
>>
>> c.
>
> Are we going to solve this with a perl script or at installation time
> with pre_install. m and PKG_ADD?

I think a perl script would be better. The pre_install and PKG_ADD
approach are more complicate to write and to cover corner cases and
seem to be failing. I'll try to write something this morning.

Carnë

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