[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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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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