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Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2000 20:35:48 +0100
From: Richard Dawe <richdawe AT bigfoot DOT com>
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CC: Laurynas Biveinis <lauras AT softhome DOT net>,
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Subject: Re: DJGPP library DSMs
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Hello.

Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> 
> On Sun, 9 Apr 2000, Laurynas Biveinis wrote:
> >
> > Currently only groups can specify which packages do they have. Why do
> > you want it in reverse way?
> 
> The problem with groups being specified on their own DSM files is that
> the group is closed.  How do we add a new package to a group?

You can just create a new version of DSM file. There is a
'dsm-file-version' directive for this purpose.

> For that matter, where will the group DSM be stored?

I imagine that the DSM will be stored on the DJGPP archive somewhere -
wherever appropriate, e.g. in v2gnu for gnutools.dsm. OTOH it may be
better to keep all the DSMs together, perhaps in a directory called
v2packages?

I suspect a solution to this problem may be to create a ZIP file
containing ZIP files for all the packages in the group. Since there is a
distinction between group packages and other packages, this should not be
too hard to add to zippo. e.g. gnutools package contains:

gnutools.dsm
mak3781b.zip
gcc2952b.zip
...

On installing with zippo, the ZIP files would be extracted to a temporary
directory and then the "child" packages would be installed.

Bye,

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Richard Dawe
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