[Slackbuilds-users] Questions

[Martin Lefebvre]

On 7/28/06, Alan Hicks <alan at lizella.net> wrote:
> Martin Lefebvre wrote:
> > How would the current guidelines/framework apply to a BuildScript
> > including multiple sources (like a deamon and 3 separate plugins, for
> > example)?
> >
> > Right now, the $PRGNAM.info file has what's required for 1 soure file.
>
> That's a good question!  In order to answer it, I guess we need to know
> what the $PRGNAM.info files are used for.  I've been out of the loop for
> awhile now, but last I heard we were looking at using it's contents to
> populate a database IIRC.  Has any progress been made on that end, and
> if not, is it something we really need?
>

I use the .info file to download the source :P

wget `cat $PRGNAM.info | grep DOWNLOAD | awk -F "=" '{ print $2 }'`

Obviously, that only download one of the sources... Wondering if
putting DOWNLOAD as an array would work...

DOWNLOAD=(src1.tar.gz src2.tar.gz etc)

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