[PC-BSD Pbi-dev] Question concerning PBI 9 format

[Kris Moore]

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On 10/03/2010 19:07, Jesse Smith wrote:
> I was reading through the documentation for the new pbi_ command line
> tools. And it looks like these tools will be able to build PBI modules
> and packages from Ports.
> 
> I'd just like to confirm this as I was originally planning on adding
> PBI-9 support to my Make-A-PBI program. However, if the functionality
> already exists in a PC-BSD tool, then I don't want to duplicate existing
> work.
> 
> Could someone please confirm I'm reading the documentation correctly? In
> some places it seems to use "package" and "module" interchangeably.
> 
> Thanks,
> Jesse
> 
> 
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Jesse,

The pbi_ tools will be able to build PBIs without the need for the PBI
Builder package anymore, however they will not auto-generate a module
for you. Luckily the new module format is really easy, just a pbi.conf
file, and desktop files are usually all thats needed. (If the target
port has its own .desktop file, that's unnecessary as well)

Your tool could still be useful as a way to manually ask questions from
the user, and then spit out the pbi.conf / desktop files. You could even
set your tool up to run "pbi_makeport <flags> to test the resulting
module file if you like :)


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Kris Moore
PC-BSD Software
iXsystems
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