[haiku-commits] Re: r40829 - haiku/trunk/build/jam

  • From: scottmc <scottmc2@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: haiku-commits@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Mon, 7 Mar 2011 15:34:57 +0000

On Mon, Mar 7, 2011 at 9:38 AM, Ingo Weinhold <ingo_weinhold@xxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On 2011-03-07 at 03:21:58 [+0100], Ryan Leavengood <leavengood@xxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
>> On Sat, Mar 5, 2011 at 6:11 PM,  <mattmadia@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> > Log:
>> > Repackaged WebPositive:
>> >  * fixed the displayed attributes in Tracker (eg, Size, Modified, ...)
>> >  * added .OptionalPackageDescription
>> > Noticed by diver. Thanks!
>>
>> If I make use of this new archive as the "base" for when I do new
>> releases of WebPositive it should still have the right Tracker
>> attributes, right? I originally used the last release from Rene as the
>> base: I extracted it and then copied the updated binaries into that
>> directory and then zipped it up again (which in the end I wrote a bash
>> script for.)
>>
>> Is there already some standard packaging tool for optional packages
>> that some people are using?
>
> It's called haikuporter and the recipe for building, testing, and packaging
> software is a bep-file.
>
>> Though I suppose it is a moot point once
>> we have the new package stuff going...
>
> Actually it is not, since save for the name of the tool and the recipe
> files (well, also their contents) haikuporter will be the tool for building
> the hpkg packages.
>
> So, if there isn't a bep-file for a WebPositive over at HaikuPorts yet, it
> certainly wouldn't harm to add one.
>
> CU, Ingo
>
>

There's a few .bep for building some Haiku apps that you can look at
for examples:
http://ports.haiku-files.org/browser/haikuports/trunk/haiku-apps

-scottmc

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