Hello Joseph,

Hey that's great. I just wrote 'yipee, it works' in the Handbook for version
1.1. If you need help with your package building just ask. If you need
immediate help, the only documentation dealing with package building is the
Handbook http://www.openpkg.org/doc/handbook/openpkg.html.

OpenPKG will install a package only to its own hierarchy, and that is what
lets it securely offer the big advantage of multiple OpenPKG instances on one
machine. For example, if you bootstrap to the directory /cw and then install
a package with the command /cw/bin/rpm -Uvh, the package contents will be
installed only to the subdirectories of /cw (usually /cw/bin /cw/lib and so
on.) If you have a second OpenPKG instance and have bootstrapped it to /sfw,
then running /sfw/bin/rpm -Uvh will install to a subdirectory of /sfw. You see
where this is going.

By the way, when I mentioned the small section in the Quick Reference
regarding 'Preparing the environment', I meant that if you have multiple
instances of OpenPKG it is useful to run "eval `/cw/etc/rc --eval all env`" or
something like that. A run-command script will then begin setting your
environment variables so that you can just type rpm -bb, rpm --rebuild, rpm
-Uvh, and so on, knowing that the correct OpenPKG instance will be used. Check
this out.

Good luck,
Michael

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On Thu, Apr 04, 2002 at 02:16:18AM +1000, Joseph Sirucka wrote:
> Michael
> 
> Make note to mention this on the documentation.
> 
> It works yipee.
> 
> now I gonna make some openpkgs hopefully without questions being asked.
> 
> Also when I make packages do they have to reside under the /cw 
> directory, or can they reside under the main filesystem.
> 
> A happy camper.
> 
> Joseph
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