Date: Sun, 3 Aug 1997 07:27:07 -0400 (EDT) From: Bill Pechter <pechter@lakewood.com> To: phk@dk.tfs.com (Poul-Henning Kamp) Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ports-current/packages-current discontinued Message-ID: <199708031127.HAA01868@i4got.lakewood.com> In-Reply-To: <10531.870598294@critter.dk.tfs.com> from Poul-Henning Kamp at "Aug 3, 97 10:51:34 am"
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> And for an encore, find somebody who knows how to install "nvix.bms.U345621" > on an AIX 3.2.5.1 system, and have them explain how >that< works. > > -- > Poul-Henning Kamp | phk@FreeBSD.ORG FreeBSD Core-team. If you really want to know how this works -- I used to roll up packages for distribution with NetView at IBM. They are just a backup (by inode) file with six (I think) additional files -- an install script, a deinstall script, a preinstall script and a postinstall script and a postdeinstall script and a list of dependencies and a fileset listing. Among the things the installp program does is unpack the backup set, check the dependancies, run the preinstall script, run the install script. To deinstall there's a deinstall script and a postdeinstall script What do you need to know about the nvix.bms.U345621 -- it's a patch (PTF) to the nvix.bms fileset. The ptf's are similar in structure to the installp filesets. Bill ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Bill Pechter | 17 Meredith Drive Tinton Falls, NJ 07724 | 908-389-3592 pechter@lakewood.com | Save computing history, give an old geek old hardware. This msg brought to you by the letters PDP and the number 11.
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