[csw-maintainers] GAR Update: Copyright notices and dynamic gspec-files

[Dagobert Michelsen]

Hi,

I have finished copyright notices and dynamic gspec-files in GAR.

To give you a quick start here are some facts:

Dynamic gspec-files are constructed as follows:
- Packages using dynamic gspec-files must be listed in PACKAGES
- There is a default of PACKAGES containing one packages named CSW
   followed by the GARNAME. It can be changed by setting PACKAGES  
explicitly.
- The name of the generated package is always the same as listed in  
PACKAGES
- The catalog name defaults to the suffix following CSW of the package  
name,
   but can be customized by setting CATALOGNAME_<pkg> = <catalogname- 
of-pkg>
- If only one package is build it is sufficient to set CATALOGNAME =  
<catalogname-of-pkg>
   It is an error to set CATALOGNAME if more than one package is build.
- If the package is suitable for all architectures (sparc and x86)  
this can be
   flagged with ARCHALL_<pkg> = 1 for a specific package or with  
ARCHALL = 1
   for all packages.

Dynamic licenses are selected in the following way:
- Dynamic licenses are only activated for packages listed in PACKAGES or
   packages which don't have %copyright in their gspec-file. This way  
the
   behaviour on existing gspec-files is preserved.
- The default name for the license is COPYING and it will not be fully  
printed
- If no license is explicitly specified in the Makefile and the  
default can not
   be found no license will be included
- If a license is specified it must be found or an error is issued
- Either LICENSE_<pkg> or LICENSE_FULL_<pkg> may be specified, it is  
an error
   to specify both.
- There is an automatic rule to include only the license for each  
package that
   belongs to it.
- Package-specific defines have precedence over general defines  
(CATALOGNAME_<pkg>
   before CATALOGNAME etc.)

There is also some draft documentation at
   https://apps.sourceforge.net/mediawiki/gar/index.php?title=Copyright
   https://apps.sourceforge.net/mediawiki/gar/index.php?title=Packaging

You can take a look at pca, autoconf, dtracetoolkit or libtool as  
examples.
Please let me know if you encounter something unusual.


Best regards

   -- Dago