[csw-maintainers] Newbie first packaging questions

[Romeo Theriault]

On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 9:55 PM, Dagobert Michelsen <dam at opencsw.org> wrote:
> 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


Thank you for the pointers. That's what I was looking for.

Romeo