On Wed, Aug 27, 2014 at 07:54:42AM +0200, pulkomandy wrote: > On Tue, Aug 26, 2014 at 05:46:25PM -0700, I wrote: > > > > Afraid I'm still a bit lost. I've been reading > > > > https://dev.haiku-os.org/wiki/PackageManagement/FileFormat > > > > but it leaves me unclear as to exactly what lines I should add to the > > .Packageinfo. > > > > Could I persuade you to give a short example? > > You need to use global-writable-files for this. > https://dev.haiku-os.org/wiki/PackageManagement/BuildingPackages has an > example for whem creating a package manually, Thanks. *That* was what I was looking for, but somehow completely failed to find it! Dunno why -- it's right ther in the PackageManagement contents list... So now, I have an hpkg that works. Now I have to get it available. I'm really reluctant to go through the whole HaikuPorter palaver. I've spent several days on what I hoped would be a few hours' job [OK -- learning curve and all that] but it looks like trying to create a recipe -- and getting it accepted -- is going to be a further major messy undertaking that I don't have the time or motivation for at the moment. So, what to do? -- Pete --