[M3devel] scripts/PKGS

[Tony Hosking]

Thanks Jay and Olaf for your explanations.  I am only ever a general  
user of the scripts, but perhaps as a maintainer I should understand  
them better.

On Feb 12, 2008, at 5:34 AM, Olaf Wagner wrote:

> Quoting Tony Hosking <hosking at cs.purdue.edu>:
>
>> I notice scripts/PKGS is no longer in the repository.  Does this get
>> generated somehow now?  I know that do-cm3-std.sh depends on it  
>> because
>> my copy of PKGS was broken (missing sysutils).  Can someone  
>> explain to
>> me how the build scripts have changed and how I should be using them?
>
> PKGS has never been checked-in and should not as far as I know.
> It contains workspace-dependent paths and is built by find-packages.sh
> if I remember correctly. All shell scripts will generate it if it
> does not exist. It can be deleted any time, and indeed must be deleted
> if packages are added (or they will not be found). This is arguably  
> a bug,
> but then all the scripts were never intended to be a general user  
> interface
> for CM3 users (only for the maintenance).
>
> Olaf
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