question about fields in INDEX files
Garrett Cooper
youshi10 at u.washington.edu
Sun May 6 12:18:46 PDT 2007
Garrett Cooper wrote:
> 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
Ok, question about 3. was answered, and so was the questions for 12. and
13. I assume. I'll reread the email Matthew Seaman, and see if I can
find any spots where I'm confused.
Thanks!
-Garrett
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