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Date: Tue, 10 Sep 2002 13:20:33 +0200
From: Manuel Collado <m DOT collado AT aaron DOT ls DOT fi DOT upm DOT es>
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Subject: Re: List of DJGPP packages
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DJ Delorie wrote:
> 
> > I've created a single list of all packages in a DJGPP
> > distribution.
> 
> Note that the DJGPP ftp sites have two files FILES and LISTINGS.zip
> that contains much of the same information, although not as nicely
> formatted.

Please look at my readme file
http://lml.ls.fi.upm.es/~mcollado/pkglist/readme.txt

What I want is a complete list of packages with precise package names,
versions, and descriptions, so it can serve as a basis for:

- global DJGPP installation from scratch (to select what to install)
- updating existing DJGPP installations (to upgrade to new versions)

At present I feel the available facilities (zip-picker, pakke, 00_index
files, etc.) are rather unconnected. When compiling my list, I had to
manually inspect the contents of many archives to complete the list.
Only dsm files have precise information, but a lot of archives, mostly
legacy but also some recent ones, don't have them.

I'm thinking about an interactive global installer/maintainer set on top
of pakke + wget + unzip32, capable of handling legacy archives.

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