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Date: Sun, 06 May 2007 12:19:23 -0700
From: Garrett Cooper <youshi10@u.washington.edu>
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Subject: Re: question about fields in INDEX files
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Garrett Cooper wrote:
> Michel Talon wrote:
>> Take a look at:
>> http://www.lpthe.jussieu.fr/~talon/freebsdports.html
>> all fields are explained.
>>
> 
> Thanks to Michel (many kudos and much thanks!), I now have a list of all 
> of the fields:
> 
>    1. pkgname
>    2. path
>    3. prefix
>    4. comment
>    5. descr
>    6. maintainer
>    7. categories
>    8. build_deps
>    9. run_deps
>   10. website
>   11. extract_deps
>   12. patch_deps
>   13. fetch_deps
> 
> I looked through the INDEX file pretty quickly, and I can't see any 
> instances of 12. or 13.
> 
> Also, I'm still wondering if 3. is necessary because the user can 
> specify the install directory, and/or we could set the default to 
> /usr/local. The only case where I see this as incorrect is with already 
> installed packages, but that should be specified in the /var/db/pkg/* 
> files, right?
> 
> Thanks again all!
> 
> -Garrett

Ok, question about 3. was answered, and so was the questions for 12. and 
  13. I assume. I'll reread the email Matthew Seaman, and see if I can 
find any spots where I'm confused.

Thanks!
-Garrett