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10 Subject: distribution sets, etc...
11 Date: Mon, 18 Jul 1994 05:02:11 -0400
12 From: "Chris G. Demetriou" <cgd (a] alpha.bostic.com>
13 Status: R
14
15 [ this is also going in a README in the 'sets' directory... ]
16
17 well, i've finally sat down and started doing distribution set
18 stuff in a "nice, machine-independent way." Should have done
19 it months ago, but too much other stuff going on then...
20
21 anyway, grab ~cgd/sets.tar.gz -- it's three scripts, and a bunch
22 of files.
23
24 the scripts should be run from the directory where they reside.
25
26 makeflist: output the list of files that should be in a
27 distribution, according to the contents of the
28 'lists' directory.
29
30 checkflist: check the file list (as internally generated
31 by makeflist) against the tree living in $DESTDIR.
32 (that tree should be made with 'make distribution'.)
33
34 maketars: make tarballs of the various sets in the distribution,
35 based on the contents of the lists, the tree in
36 $DESTDIR, and put the tarballs in $RELEASEDIR.
37 Note that this script _doesn't_ create the 'secr'
38 distribution, because (for now) it requires
39 manual intervention to get the binaries right...
40 (i'll add another script to create that dist, later.)
41
42 what's in 'lists':
43
44 lists describing file sets. There are two sets of lists per file
45 set: machine dependent and machine-independent files. (there's
46 also another file in the 'man' dir, which is used by the 'man'
47 and 'misc' sets, but that's explained later.)
48
49 There is one machine-independent file, named "mi". There are
50 N machine-dependent files (one per architecture), named "md.${ARCH}".
51
52 the sets are as follows:
53
54 secr: security software -- the non-exportable bits, i.e.
55 those that actually use crypt, and have it compiled
56 in.
57
58 base: the base binary set. excludes everything described
59 below.
60
61 comp: compiler tools. All of the tools relating to C, C++,
62 and FORTRAN (yes, there are two!) that are in the
63 tree. This includes includes, the linker, tool chain,
64 and the .a versions of the libraries. (obviously,
65 base includes ldd, ld.so, and the shared versions.
66 base also includes 'cpp', because that's used by X11.)
67 includes the man pages for all the binaries contained
68 within. Also, includes all library and system call
69 manual pages.
70
71 etc: /etc, and associated files (/var/cron/tabs, /root,
72 etc.). things that shouldn't be blindly reinstalled
73 on an upgrade.
74
75 games: the games and their man pages.
76
77 man: all of the man pages for the system, except those
78 listed elsewhere (e.g. in comp, games, misc, text).
79 Includes machine-dependent man pages for this CPU.
80
81 misc: share/dict, share/doc, and the machine-dependent
82 man pages for other cpu's which happen to always
83 be installed.
84
85 text: text processing tools. groff and all of its friends.
86 includes man pages for all bins contained within.
87
88
89 as noted, in addition to the "standard" files in each dir, there's
90 a file called 'md_share' in lists/man. it's the list of man pages
91 that are installed from /usr/src/share, which are machine-dependent.
92 (note that ones that are installed from elsewhere, and thus are
93 installed on only one architecture, are listed in the md.${ARCH}
94 file.) basically, it's grepped through, to see which of the
95 machine-dependent man pages that are always installed should go
96 in the 'man' set, and which should go into the 'misc' set.
97
98
99 I've made attempts to get the md files for the amiga, i386, hp300,
100 pc532, and sparc done. I've not attempted the rest (though there
101 are empty files for all architectures except the da30, in the
102 various directories). I think i got the amiga, i386, and sparc
103 done correctly, but i know that (because of weirdnesses in how
104 their last snapshots were built) i didn't get hp300 or pc532
105 done right.
106
107 what you folks need to do:
108
109 run 'checkflist' on a tree that you've created with 'make
110 distribution'. send me the output, and i'll take care of putting
111 stuff on the right lists for you. In the future, you'll get
112 to do it yourselves, as you add programs and include files, but
113 i'd prefer to do it the first time (unless you really want to do it
114 yourself -- in that case, please ask me to check your suggestions
115 re: the appropriate sets for things...) There should be a minimal
116 list output by checkflist -- it should all be things that
117 _should_ be on your lsits, but aren't, i.e. machine-dependent
118 binaries, man pages, and include files.
119
120 Also, please look through the lists, and tell me if you think
121 i've put anything in the wrong place. i think i've
122 taken care of all of the machine-dependence bugaboos, by
123 doing it for the N architectures, but i'm not _sure_... 8-)
124
125
126 thanks,
127
128 chris
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