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Date: Tue, 04 Dec 2001 21:27:34 +0000
From: Richard Dawe <rich AT phekda DOT freeserve DOT co DOT uk>
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Hello.

Charles Sandmann wrote:
> 
> > > By the way, should the .dsm be in the .mft?
> >
> > If you mean that the contents of the .dsm file should be in the .mft
> > file, then I don't think so: *.mft are supposed to hold a list of
> > files only.
> 
> I mean should the line "manifest/djdev203.dsm" appear in the file
> "manifest/djdev203.mft"

Yes, it should.

You can install packages with DSMs two ways:

(1) Just unzip as usual.
(2) Use zippo to install.

If you use method (1), zippo will "know" about the package, but won't be
able to upgrade/uninstall it. You can uninstall it as normal using 'rm
@manifest/blah.mft'.

If you use method(2), zippo copies the DSM into its internal database and
stores MD5 hashes of all the files it's installed. It can then
upgrade/uninstall the package.

Things get ugly if you install with method (2), but then uninstall using
'rm @manifest/blah.mft'.
 
> Right now it does not (so doing rm @... doesn't remove the .dsm).  I'm
> not sure how that works (I left it like 2.03, .dsm does not appear).
> 
> Should then contents of the dsm be changed to allow refreshing over
> a current 2.03?  (says replaces djdev < 2.03)

DSMs allow you specify the version in a number of ways. Since the update
will have the same major & minor version, I'd recommend using the
'patchlevel' or 'release' modifiers for the version. E.g.:

    ...
    name: djdev
    version: 2.03 patchlevel 1
    ...
    replaces: djdev < 2.03 patchlevel 1

Bye, Rich =]

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Richard Dawe
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