From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Jun 21 16:51:02 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA28037 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Sun, 21 Jun 1998 16:51:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from time.cdrom.com (root@time.cdrom.com [204.216.27.226]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA28022 for ; Sun, 21 Jun 1998 16:50:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jkh@time.cdrom.com) Received: from time.cdrom.com (jkh@localhost.cdrom.com [127.0.0.1]) by time.cdrom.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA18673; Sun, 21 Jun 1998 16:50:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jkh@time.cdrom.com) To: Sue Blake cc: ada@bsd.org, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 2.2.6 CD-ROM : Package dependencies up the creek ? In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 22 Jun 1998 07:48:50 +1000." <19980622074850.57163@welearn.com.au> Date: Sun, 21 Jun 1998 16:50:53 -0700 Message-ID: <18668.898473053@time.cdrom.com> From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Since at this stage I'm rather vague about shell scripts let alone > packages, and I've seen several others come up with related ideas, this > will proceed on the basis of "if nobody else does something similar > before I learn how to do it". I strongly urge you to do this even if someone else does do something like it. This is a category of packages which could stand to have a lot more than one entry in it and knowing how to create packages of this nature is a valuable skill. Read the man page for pkg_create (it will probably take several readings - the material is dense :) and start off with small single-purpose packages which exercise each specific feature of packages (install scripts, special PLIST directives, etc) you're unclear on until you can put it all together. - Jordan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message