question about fields in INDEX files
Garrett Cooper
youshi10 at u.washington.edu
Sun May 6 12:14:40 PDT 2007
Michel Talon wrote:
> Take a look at:
> http://www.lpthe.jussieu.fr/~talon/freebsdports.html
> all fields are explained.
>
Thanks to Michel (many kudos and much thanks!), I now have a list of all
of the fields:
1. pkgname
2. path
3. prefix
4. comment
5. descr
6. maintainer
7. categories
8. build_deps
9. run_deps
10. website
11. extract_deps
12. patch_deps
13. fetch_deps
I looked through the INDEX file pretty quickly, and I can't see any
instances of 12. or 13.
Also, I'm still wondering if 3. is necessary because the user can
specify the install directory, and/or we could set the default to
/usr/local. The only case where I see this as incorrect is with already
installed packages, but that should be specified in the /var/db/pkg/*
files, right?
Thanks again all!
-Garrett
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