[openbeos] Re: Haiku distro guidelines [was: Haiku VmwareBuild Environment]

  • From: "Karl vom Dorff" <karl@xxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: openbeos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2008 11:59:12 -0400

Just thought of something... With regards to the 'Haiku Distro Guidelines'
it should also mention that you should adjust the license in the 'installer'
application...



On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 9:59 AM, Ryan Leavengood <leavengood@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 9:00 AM, Ingo Weinhold <ingo_weinhold@xxxxxx>
> wrote:
> >
> > The license name would refer to an equally named file in /etc/licenses/.
> To
> > avoid conflicts, the name of the file in a optional package should be
> > ".OptionalPackageDescription", added to the zip file without path name.
>
> I was thinking a similar idea for a new native package format (really
> just a zip file with a special meta file inside, like Java jars.) So
> maybe this could be the beginnings of that.
>
> Of course the tool for "installing" the packages would need to be
> inside Haiku, not in the build system. But that is something I could
> work on.
>
> Ryan
>
>


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Karl vom Dorff
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