Re: [Fink-devel] On multi-target packages and how to implementthem

2002-02-17 Thread Max Horn
At 10:11 Uhr +1100 18.02.2002, David Stanaway wrote: >On Friday, February 15, 2002, at 08:31 PM, Max Horn wrote: > >>IMHO, it is cleaner to have the "Files" field, splitoffs really >>shouldn't do much more than to contain some files that used to be >>in the master package. Using "files", we als

Re: [Fink-devel] On multi-target packages and how to implementthem

2002-02-15 Thread Max Horn
At 21:15 Uhr -0500 14.02.2002, Kyle Moffett wrote: >What I think is that instead of all this files business, we ought to >simply allow InstallScript in SplitOffs, then all that would be >needed is a few different install scripts, and very little extra >perl code Actually, the "Files" field is

Re: [Fink-devel] On multi-target packages and how to implementthem

2002-02-14 Thread Max Horn
At 19:58 Uhr -0500 14.02.2002, David R. Morrison wrote: >Two more comments for now: > >1) InfoDocs also needs to be on the "allowed" list, since we can't control >where the .info files will be installed. Similarly, UpdatePod. And PostInstScript, PostRmScript, PreInstScript, PreRmScript. >2

Re: [Fink-devel] On multi-target packages and how to implementthem

2002-02-14 Thread Max Horn
At 19:28 Uhr -0500 14.02.2002, David R. Morrison wrote: >I like the > >SplitOff: << > Package: %n-shlibs ><< > >style. But I have a question about the syntax: will the entries within >a "SplitOff" section be allowed to use multi-line format themselves? e.g. > >SplitOff: << > Package: %n-shlib

Re: [Fink-devel] On multi-target packages and how to implementthem

2002-02-14 Thread Max Horn
At 18:40 Uhr -0500 14.02.2002, David R. Morrison wrote: >There is another aspect of this which has not yet been mentioned. > >When fink is analyzing dependencies, it (apparently, since I can't read >perl) creates a list of existing .info files which it can suggest it >will build in order to meet u

Re: [Fink-devel] On multi-target packages and how to implementthem

2002-02-14 Thread Max Horn
[...] >3) File format to represent splitoffs >- > >A slightly extend version of my original demo. Note that the >Splitoff: field is nonstandard since it mixes the single & multi >line formats. Peter just suggested how we can do it nicely in a compatible fash