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Date: Tue, 17 Sep 2002 12:24:35 +0200
From: Manuel Collado <m DOT collado AT aaron DOT ls DOT fi DOT upm DOT es>
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Subject: Trouble with pakke --syncdb (Was: List of DJGPP packages)
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Richard Dawe wrote:
> [snip]
> > some (hopefuly moderate) effort, minimal dsms could be build for every
> > remaining package.
> 
> dsmgen.sh from the pakke distribution may help here. Take a look at
> ${DJDIR}/contrib/pakke021/scripts/dsm2ver.sh.

I didn't saw it before, so I almost duplicate your code (in AWK).
Anyway, yor scripts have been very helpful when writing new utilities to
handle dsms.

Another question has arised when trying to setup a global installation
procedure (I've changed the subject line to reflect this new topic).
I've tried to make a global installation by simply unzipping a lot of
archives, and then invoking 'pakke --initdb' and 'pakke --syncdb' to
build the installed packages database.

When doing so I see some unpacked packages not listed by 'pakke -qa'. I
mean packages with valid dsms. Before posting details (a very long post)
I would like to know what is the exact policy used by pakke to find
which pakckages has been manually installed, so I could try to diagnose
the problem.

For example, I got 'g77' listed twice (as 'g77' and 'g7731b') and gcc
not listed at all, after unzipping 'gcc31b.zip' and 'g7731b.zip' among
other archives.

Thanks for your time,
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