On Tue, Nov 28, 2006, Doug Henry wrote: > I was wondering if the options to packages are documented anywhere? Just a > simple description of what they provide is sufficient. Many are self > explanatory, but things like "imapd::with_replication" are not, at least not > to > me.
We try hard to make them self-explaining as good as possible and in addition we name them equal in different packages if they do the same (typical example is "with_ssl" for enabling SSL/TLS support or "with_x11" for X11 support in dozend of packages), but beside this there is unfortunately no further description or even a full documentation what each particular option is for. This is certainly a shortcoming in our packages. I also wanted to add a short description text at the end of the "%option" lines in our packages, but at the time we invented our "%option" extension, I'd not found a reasonable way to _store_ those informations in the RPM itself (our %options are just "Provides" headers as they have to be "PreReq"'ed in other packages and AFAIK there is no possibility to store a comment or something like this in a "Provides" header) -- hence this whole stuff was left out at all :-( In case a package %option is not clear the best I can recommend you is to look into the .spec file (just lookup the package under http://www.openpkg.org/product/packages/ and navigate to its .spec file hyperlink) and there look for the '%if "%{with_xxx} == "yes"' parts. Most options just enable or disable some Autoconf "configure" options of the underlying program (in your example "--enable-replication" is passed which AFAIK builds stuff related to this: http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/imapd/install-replication.html). Ralf S. Engelschall [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.engelschall.com ______________________________________________________________________ The OpenPKG Project www.openpkg.org User Communication List openpkg-users@openpkg.org
