On Thu, Mar 11, 2004, Ralf S. Engelschall wrote: >On Thu, Mar 11, 2004, Michael van Elst wrote: > >> > > I looked through the online documentation but can't seem to find any >> > > reference as to what the <id> or <tag> identifies. What does it mean? >> > > I noticed when I bootstrapped it on Solaris 8 the <tag> was <dcl>, but >> > > then when I'm now building it on Solaris 9 the <tag> changed to <ulo>. >> > > Why is that? Can this tag be changed or manipulated for custom rebuilt >> > > packages? That would be useful. Then we can keep essentially the same >> > > naming convention with our own modified packages but have a different >> > > <tag> to identify us. >> >> The tag identifies different OpenPKG instances on the same machine >> and is by default computed from the prefix. >> E.g.: >> /usr/local/opkg -> ulo > >Yes, and while in OpenPKG 1.3 the tag was hard-coded to be a compressed >string derived from the instance prefix, in OpenPKG 2.0 it is an >arbitrary string including some possible expansion constructs like ><compat> (for the old 1.3 prefix derivation), <loc> (for the 2.0 prefix >derivation), <opt> (for UUID v3 tags based on the package options), ><uuid> (for UUID v1 tags), <time> (for the current date and time), ><user>, <group> and <host>. > >The tag is usually specified during bootstrapping with option "--tag" >but it can be overridden for each package on the "rpm --rebuild" command >line with an option "--tag", too.
This reminds me of a question I've meant to ask many times, I seem to remember reading about the ability to clone packages from one instance to another (e.g. gcc, perl, etc.), but haven't been able to find the documentation. <HTML_RELIGIOUS_RANT role="ON"> I find the on-line web documentation very difficult to read as it seems to use preformatted text with small fonts that require that I scroll horizontally even on a 21in monitor with 1400x1050 resolution. HTML was designed to make it easy to read information regardless of the browser, and documentation with things like Docbook don't force fonts or formatting which I find much easier to read. </HTML_RELIGIOUS_RANT> Bill -- INTERNET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bill Campbell; Celestial Software LLC UUCP: camco!bill PO Box 820; 6641 E. Mercer Way FAX: (206) 232-9186 Mercer Island, WA 98040-0820; (206) 236-1676 URL: http://www.celestial.com/ ``Democracy Is Mob Rule with Income Taxes'' ______________________________________________________________________ The OpenPKG Project www.openpkg.org User Communication List [EMAIL PROTECTED]
