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

[Dagobert Michelsen]

Hi Peter,

Am 02.06.2012 um 10:36 schrieb Peter FELECAN:
> Dagobert Michelsen <dam at opencsw.org> writes:
>> 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?

Thanks for pointing this out. The documentation was wrong, I fixed it so it
correctly resembles the internals in the GAR Variable Reference.


Best regards

  -- Dago