Basant Kukreja wrote: Thanks for the comments/suggestions.
> I believe that your suggestion is to have version appeared in the tar suffix > e.g perl-5.8.8.tar.Z > Yes, but this isn't something that we'll be adding. The upstream community already distributes their sources with such a file name. > Few comments : > (a) I believe that build will happen is a separate generated subdirectory e.g > build or SunOS5.10.xx The Web Stack sources in their current form simply build the sources using the build rules in each component. I don't believe there is any separate/uniform subdirectory name that all components use during their build. > (b) I believe that order of patches will be appeared in Makefile or may be > a sub makefile patch.mk. This is how sfw does it. > (d) Is ".Z" a preferred way to ".gz" or ".bz2"? Depends on what distros the upstream community publishes. For example, imap (ftp://ftp.cac.washington.edu/imap/old/) only puts out .tar.Z. Arvi
