* shell commands helpfull for building fpmake.pp

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@ -3,14 +3,14 @@ This is the FPC packager.
The architecture is as follows:
A mirror list is maintained with FPC repositories.
The packager will download the mirror list and store
The packager will download the mirror list and store
it somewhere locally
From a mirror, a repository is chosen (using it's name)
From the repository the repository file is downloaded.
From the repository the repository file is downloaded.
It contains all known packages. The fprepos.pp unit contains the
functionality to read and maintain the package file.
functionality to read and maintain the package file.
The packager maintains a local repository file. when needed
it will download a package and install it. It does so recursively.
@ -22,15 +22,15 @@ create a manifest file (in XML) to import in a repository.
All packager functionality will be implemented in units so
these units can be used in command-line and GUI package managers.
All packager command handling is implemented in descendents fom
All packager command handling is implemented in descendents fom
TPackageHandler (pkghandler.pp). All messages emitted by these
handlers are in pkgmessages.
handlers are in pkgmessages.
Units:
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fprepos:
A unit that describes a repository.
A unit that describes a repository.
It is mainly a collection of packages.
fpxmlrep
A unit to read/write a repository to XML. It can be used to read a
@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ fpmkunit
this is the unit that implements all the functionality a fpmake driver
needs.
fpmktype
types and constants shared by fpmkunit and fprepos
types and constants shared by fpmkunit and fprepos
rep2xml
test program for the fprepos unit.
reptest
@ -63,19 +63,19 @@ pkgsynapse
a downloader based on Synapse. Do not put in makefile, as Synapse is
not distributed by default with FPC.
pkglibcurl
a downloader based on LibCurl (plain C library).
a downloader based on LibCurl (plain C library).
pkgocurl
a downloader based on CurlPas (object version). Do not put in makefile,
as CurlPas is not distributed with FPC.
pkglnet
a downloader based on lNet. The library is distributed in "lnet" subdir
of fppkg root.
Options supported in packager config file:
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LocalMirrors
LocalMirrors
Local file with list of mirrors.
RemoteMirrors
URL with location of remote mirrors file.
@ -91,7 +91,21 @@ Compiler
Compiler binary to be used
OS
Default OS
CPU
CPU
Default CPU
Defaults can be found in pkgropts
Helpfull commands for building packages:
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* Generate AddInclude lines from an existing PPU file:
ppudump $1 | awk "/^Source/ { printf(\"AddInclude('%s');\\n\",\$5); }"
* Testing if building a package from archive works:
fpc fpmake && fpmake archive && fppkg build *.zip