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

[Peter FELECAN]

Ben Walton <bwalton at opencsw.org> writes:

> 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.

Tx. I used this solution to my satisfaction.

>> 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.

This is probably the case as the empty package is named CSWemacs, the
firs package in the PACKAGES is CSWemacs-common and GARNAME is
emacs. Fits your hypothesis but fuzz the documentation...
-- 
Peter