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