[csw-maintainers] Where does "category" come from?

[Dagobert Michelsen]

Hi Peter,

Am 26.01.2012 um 20:03 schrieb Peter Bonivart:
> On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 7:47 PM, Dagobert Michelsen <dam at opencsw.org> wrote:
>> Am 26.01.2012 um 18:35 schrieb Maciej (Matchek) Bliziński:
>>> 2012/1/26 Dagobert Michelsen <dam at opencsw.org>:
>>>> I noticed the catalog contains "category" as the last field like this:
>>>> 
>>>> xtideh 07.12.28,REV=2008.02.05 CSWxtideh xtideh-07.12.28,REV=2008.02.05-SunOS5.8-all-CSW.pkg.gz 0aa9756ab43d8219b8c0c54a21e5a7dc 741164 CSWcommon eng|fun|lib
> 
> Note that the above is not a full catalog line, it should have I-deps
> (or "none") as 9th field. I fought with Phil for two years to get that
> included so don't you forget it! ;)

Ahh, yes, of course not ;)

>> I see. It is generated from CSW_CATEGORY from pkginfo within the package:
>>  http://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/pkgutil/browser/trunk/bldcat#L238
>> 
>> However, I can't remember what is was used for. The discussions were from 2007 and
>> April 2008 before OpenCSW and are hence not in the mail archive. Maybe someone
>> can shed some light into this, probably Peter as he implemented it :-)
> 
> I think this has been in Phil's catalogs for a long time, it sure was
> when I first made bldcat even though I think I just put in "none" at
> first. I remember from Phil's old maintainer docs that these
> categories were documented and I suppose the GAR categories are the
> same.

The GAR categories are another area that needs reworking. It is more like a
build recipe type. Currently there are several categories which map to the
same recipe and I would to clean that up some time.

> Maybe Phil had some kind of group/bundle idea, that you should be able
> to install all "fun" stuff with one command but it never got
> implemented. It would be one way of implementing a simple install of
> AMP for example even though it's much easier to make a package called
> CSWamp just depending on what's needed. Phil didn't like empty
> packages though. But Phil's gone now.

I suggest using the field for something called "Facets" in IPS: It
specifies e.g. that it is a devel package or a locale-de package
which gets automatically installed if you enable that facet in pkgutil.conf
when anything from the bundle is installed. Ok, one more reason to have
the bundle in the catalog :-)


Best regards

  -- Dago

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