[csw-maintainers] Newbie first packaging questions

[Dagobert Michelsen]

Hi Romeo,

Am 12.06.2012 um 09:37 schrieb Romeo Theriault:
> Hello, First I'd like to start off by saying that mgar/gar is really
> cool. This is a much more automated process than I'm used to dealing
> with when building packages. (Not that I've built that many... still
> I'm impressed!) So thank you to the folks that are working on these
> pieces of software, I appreciate it.

:-)

> I'm new to building packages with mgar/gar, am new to "Makefiles" so
> please be patient with me. :)

Sure.

> Sounds like it only wants to build for solaris9... If this is the
> case, how do I make solaris 10 a 'necessary platform'?

This is explained here:
  http://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/gar/wiki/Platforms

> On a slightly different topic, does the 'category' in the package
> Makefile influence the build in anyway, or is this just a way to
> categorize packages?

Unfortunately it is a combination of both. Some categories are just
groupings (like "apps" and "lib") which are not used further on,
some are real "flavors" which change the behaviour (like "cpan").

See here for details:
  http://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/gar/browser/csw/mgar/gar/v2/categories


Best regards

  -- Dago

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