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

Ben Walton bwalton at opencsw.org
Fri Jun 1 15:28:25 CEST 2012


Excerpts from pfelecan's message of Fri Jun 01 09:25:08 -0400 2012:

Hi Peter,

> 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.

You can set it to the special value NOFILES.

> 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...

This can happen depending on what the GARNAME variable is in relation
to CSWfoo.

Thanks
-Ben
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