[csw-maintainers] GAR: PKGFILES value to obtain an empty package

Peter FELECAN pfelecan at opencsw.org
Sat Jun 2 10:36:34 CEST 2012


Dagobert Michelsen <dam at opencsw.org> writes:

> Hi Peter,
>
> Am 01.06.2012 um 15:25 schrieb pfelecan at opencsw.org:
>> What can I put in the PKGFILES_CSWfoo to obtain a empty foo package; I
>> wish to use this package as a "meta-package" for dependencies purpose.
>> 
>> What's strange is that when I set PKGFILES_CSWfoo to empty it gathers all
>> the remaining files even tough there is a first package in PACKAGES which
>> get them also...
>
> Yes, that means "catchall". You can add something not matching, I usually use
>   PKGFILE_CSWfoo = NOFILES

Alright. But the documentation says that the first package in the list
contained by PACKAGES variable gets all the non "catched" files. In my
case, the first *and* the empty valued PKGFILE_CSWfoo got all those
files resulting in 2 packages having the same files! Funny, isn't it?
-- 
Peter


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