[openbeos] Re: The biggest problems?
- From: François Revol <revol@xxxxxxx>
- To: openbeos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 04 Aug 2002 01:09:09 +0200 (MEST)
En réponse à Scott MacMaster <zqxh@xxxxxxx>:
> > Yeah, and since we want to keep a consistant package system distro
> makers
> > shouldn't have to deal with package installer anyway, they would just
> add
> > folders in optional/packages/ (although they may want to sort them,
> or
> > categorise them so there would me a smaller list)
>
> Is there a trick to getting that to work? I was expirementing with
> making a
> distro cd with optionally packages. I could only get one optionally
> package
> to show up in the install program (it was the Development package). And
> for
> some weird reason it displayed the wrong file size for the package.
> It
> displayed the size of the originall Development package on the BeOS
> cd.
> Despite that, I think it copied all the files I put in the package.
> The
> file size is a minor issue. The main issue is it didn't pick up on any
> of
> the other packages I put in there.
>
> Has anyone tried doing this successfully?
>
This is because the installer expects some attributes to be on the folders,
telling wether the package is optionnal, its size, its name, ...
To make your package recognised fully you'll have to add those attributes.
Just hang on in BeShare and download the R4 image I share or listattr on one
of your CDs...
the _do_not_install_ file also seems to have attributes (mostly md5sum)
François.
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