Subject: Re: packages hierarchy and README.html
To: Dan McMahill <dmcmahill@NetBSD.org>
From: Thomas Klausner <wiz@NetBSD.org>
List: tech-pkg
Date: 04/28/2005 14:38:22
On Tue, Apr 26, 2005 at 06:07:00PM -0400, Dan McMahill wrote:
> Now, how to make things better? One possibility is use
>
> pkgs=`find ${PACKAGES} -name foo-\* -type f`
>
> where the -type f skips the soft links from the categories to
> All. Now for each $pkgs, use pkg_info -B to extract
> OPSYS=NetBSD
> OS_VERSION=2.0
> MACHINE_ARCH=alpha
Shouldn't it be enough to run this test on one file in each
directory? I don't think we want to or even should support
mixing binary packages for different platforms/releases in
the same directory.
That should speed it up quite nicely.
Thomas