[23826] users/jberry/mpwa/doc/portpkg-design.txt

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Tue Apr 10 08:34:29 PDT 2007


Revision: 23826
          http://trac.macosforge.org/projects/macports/changeset/23826
Author:   jberry at macports.org
Date:     2007-04-10 08:34:28 -0700 (Tue, 10 Apr 2007)

Log Message:
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mpwa: MORE edits to portpkg design doc

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    users/jberry/mpwa/doc/portpkg-design.txt

Modified: users/jberry/mpwa/doc/portpkg-design.txt
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--- users/jberry/mpwa/doc/portpkg-design.txt	2007-04-10 15:31:44 UTC (rev 23825)
+++ users/jberry/mpwa/doc/portpkg-design.txt	2007-04-10 15:34:28 UTC (rev 23826)
@@ -1,6 +1,8 @@
 This document contains some information about the internal structure of a portpkg.
 
-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.
+A portpkg is the unified container for information about a port, contained in an file produced
+by xar (http://code.google.com/p/xar/). xar files contains two types of elements: files and
+additional meta information. We break our discussion of portpkg format into these two areas.
 
 portpkg files
 =============
@@ -15,12 +17,14 @@
 
 Notes:
 
-	The contents of the port directory tree are always under the portpkg root in the xar file. At some point additional information may be stored in other top-level trees inside the xar file.
+	* The contents of the port directory tree are always under the portpkg root in the xar file.
+	* At some point additional information may be stored in other top-level trees inside the xar file.
 	
 
 portpkg meta information
 ========================
-The schema for meta information in the xar file is not yet finalized, but we anticipate the following information will be present:
+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
@@ -51,8 +55,8 @@
 		* Platform spec
 			* Dependencies
 			
-	Additionally, it's possible that the following additional metainformation will be appended on submission of the portpkg
-	through mpwa:
+	Additionally, it's possible that the following additional meta information will be
+	appended on submission of the portpkg through mpwa:
 	
 	* Submitter Account UserName
 	* Submission Date
@@ -61,7 +65,8 @@
 			
 Notes:
 	
-	Note that much of this information is available in the Portfile, but it is presented here in static form, and is available without parsing the portfile.
+	* Note that much of this information is available in the Portfile, but it is presented
+	  here in static form, and is available without parsing the portfile.
 	
 	
 	
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