Re: build-info file format

[Jonathan Perkin <jperkin%joyent.com@localhost>]

* On 2019-08-05 at 08:06 BST, Pierre Dupond wrote:

>      I am looking desesperatly everywhere (google, documentation of
> pkgsrc etc)
> 
> for the syntax of the file build-info (used with the parameter "-B" of
> the command
> 
> pkg_create).
> 
> 
> The only documentation I have found is provided by this link:
> 
> https://www.perkin.org.uk/posts/creating-local-smartos-packages.html.
> 
> Generally, this file is not directly used (since it is automatically
> 
> generated by the pkgsrc mechanisms) but it is useful
> 
> if one intends to package its own software compiled outside
> 
> pkgsrc.
> 
> 
> Do you have any pointer on some documentation?

There is the pkg_summary(5) manual page which documents the required
and optional settings, but that's only those used by pkg_summary,
there's no reason you couldn't use any arbitrary values you like that
would be shown with pkg_info -B.

BTW it would help if you could take a look at your email client
settings, the mails you send have terrible formatting making them hard
to read.

Cheers,

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Jonathan Perkin  -  Joyent, Inc.  -  www.joyent.com