On Wed, 3 Jan 2001 05:25:34 +0100 (MET), hubert@feyrer.de wrote:

>  
>  0. Initial proposal:
>     http://mail-index.netbsd.org/tech-pkg/2000/10/05/0011.html
>  
>  
>  1. Refined proposal:
>  
>     old filename		   new filename		variable
>  
>     patches/patch-*         -> patch-*		PATCHDIR
>     files/md5               -> dist-sum		MD5_FILE
>     files/patch-sum         -> patch-sum		PATCH_SUM_FILE
>     pkg/PLIST*              -> plist*		PLIST_SRC
>     pkg/COMMENT             -> comment		COMMENT
>     pkg/DESCR               -> descr		DESCR_SRC
>     pkg/INSTALL             -> install		INSTALL_FILE
>     pkg/DEINSTALL           -> deinstall		DEINSTALL_FILE
>     pkg/MESSAGE             -> message		MESSAGE_FILE
>     scripts/*		   -> *			SCRIPTDIR
>     files/* 		   -> * [1]		-
>  
>     [1] Where possible - there are a number of pkgs that have a
files/Makefile
>         or similar. Must be renamed to prevent clash.
>  
>  
>  2. Procedure:
>  
>     The idea is to drop what's not needed of the current repository, and
>     start a new one. We have two ways here:
>  
>     a) Checkout, reorg, import our ~1800 pkgs.
>        This approach will also drop all revision history.
>  
>     b) Copy over all the ,v files (that are not in Attic) into a new
>        repository, then reorg there. This approach will keep revision
>        history of the files that are not deleted, but still speed up
>        "cvs update" later as there are no Attic directories that are
>        first created and then removed again immediately.
>  
>     My preference here is b).
>  
>  
>  Comments?
>  
>  
>   - Hubert
>  
>  -- 
>  Hubert Feyrer <hubert@feyrer.de>
>  

Sounds good.

But how do you differentiate, using the noemnclature above, between a script
called install, and (what is currently) a pkg/INSTALL file?

Regards,
Al

--
Alistair Crooks (agc@pkgsrc.org)





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