From owner-freebsd-current Sun Aug 3 04:27:15 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id EAA20167 for current-outgoing; Sun, 3 Aug 1997 04:27:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: from shell.monmouth.com (root@shell.monmouth.com [205.164.220.9]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id EAA20162 for ; Sun, 3 Aug 1997 04:27:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: from i4got.lakewood.com (fh-ppp23.monmouth.com [205.164.221.55]) by shell.monmouth.com (8.8.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id HAA14535; Sun, 3 Aug 1997 07:24:52 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from pechter@localhost) by i4got.lakewood.com id HAA01868 (8.8.5/IDA-1.6); Sun, 3 Aug 1997 07:27:08 -0400 (EDT) From: Bill Pechter Message-ID: <199708031127.HAA01868@i4got.lakewood.com> Subject: Re: ports-current/packages-current discontinued In-Reply-To: <10531.870598294@critter.dk.tfs.com> from Poul-Henning Kamp at "Aug 3, 97 10:51:34 am" To: phk@dk.tfs.com (Poul-Henning Kamp) Date: Sun, 3 Aug 1997 07:27:07 -0400 (EDT) Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Reply-to: pechter@lakewood.com X-Phone-Number: 908-389-3592 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL31 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > And for an encore, find somebody who knows how to install "nvix.bms.U345621" > on an AIX 3.2.5.1 system, and have them explain how >that< works. > > -- > Poul-Henning Kamp | phk@FreeBSD.ORG FreeBSD Core-team. If you really want to know how this works -- I used to roll up packages for distribution with NetView at IBM. They are just a backup (by inode) file with six (I think) additional files -- an install script, a deinstall script, a preinstall script and a postinstall script and a postdeinstall script and a list of dependencies and a fileset listing. Among the things the installp program does is unpack the backup set, check the dependancies, run the preinstall script, run the install script. To deinstall there's a deinstall script and a postdeinstall script What do you need to know about the nvix.bms.U345621 -- it's a patch (PTF) to the nvix.bms fileset. The ptf's are similar in structure to the installp filesets. Bill ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Bill Pechter | 17 Meredith Drive Tinton Falls, NJ 07724 | 908-389-3592 pechter@lakewood.com | Save computing history, give an old geek old hardware. This msg brought to you by the letters PDP and the number 11.