[23825] users/jberry/mpwa/doc/portpkg-design.txt

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Revision: 23825
          http://trac.macosforge.org/projects/macports/changeset/23825
Author:   jberry at macports.org
Date:     2007-04-10 08:31:44 -0700 (Tue, 10 Apr 2007)

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mpwa: edits to portpkg design doc

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Modified: users/jberry/mpwa/doc/portpkg-design.txt
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--- users/jberry/mpwa/doc/portpkg-design.txt	2007-04-10 15:27:23 UTC (rev 23824)
+++ users/jberry/mpwa/doc/portpkg-design.txt	2007-04-10 15:31:44 UTC (rev 23825)
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 This document contains some information about the internal structure of a portpkg.
 
-A portpkg is the unified container for information about a port. They are contained in an file produced by xar. xar contains two elements: files and additional meta information. So we break our discussion of portpkg format into the two areas.
+A portpkg is the unified container for information about a port, contained in an file produced by xar. xar files contains two types of elements: files and additional meta information. So we break our discussion of portpkg format into these two areas.
 
 portpkg files
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@@ -22,13 +22,16 @@
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 The schema for meta information in the xar file is not yet finalized, but we anticipate the following information will be present:
 
+	(portpkg information)
 	* Portpkg version
-	* Creation Date
+	* Creation Date (this may be implicit in the xar file)
 
+	(submitter information)
 	* Submitter Name
 	* Submitter Email address
 	* Submitter Notes (about the package)
 	
+	(package information: automatically parsed from the Portfile)
 	* Port name
 	* Port homepage
 	* Port categories (tags to apply on submission)

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