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| author | P. J. McDermott <pehjota> | 2012-10-17 14:04:25 (EDT) |
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| committer | P. J. McDermott <pjm@nac.net> | 2012-10-17 14:04:25 (EDT) |
| commit | ce500d16bd16716fea9615f81252d27113095116 (patch) | |
| tree | 7edf5f008ecc7368237d5331f0bc97e0be006c9b | |
| parent | e77bebe209a3bf01cad0917f35f5f56ea79325a3 (diff) | |
Describe packages index syntax.
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diff --git a/dev/archive/layout.mdwn b/dev/archive/layout.mdwn index f7fa8f7..6ecadb0 100644 --- a/dev/archive/layout.mdwn +++ b/dev/archive/layout.mdwn @@ -136,6 +136,40 @@ be located at the following path at a mirror site: /pub/proteanos/pool/main/e/expat/libexpat.1_2.1.0-2_core-linux-eglibc_all.opk +Packages Index Syntax +===================== + +The packages index file syntax is that used by APT, opkg, etc. It consists of +paragraphs of fields, with paragraphs separated by empty lines. Each field +consists of the field name, a colon (`:`), and the field value. Some fields may +have values spanning multiple lines; each line after the first in a value must +begin with at least one space. + +The fields in a paragraph are the control fields generated for binary packages +by ob-gencontrol, plus `Installed-Size`, `Filename`, `Size`, and `MD5sum`. + +Example +------- + +An example paragraph of a packages index follows: + + Package: libexpat.1 + Source: expat + Version: 2.1.0-2 + Architecture: core-linux-eglibc + Platform: all + Maintainer: "P. J. McDermott" <pjm@nac.net> + Installed-Size: 530 + Filename: ../../../../../pool/main/e/expat/libexpat.1_2.1.0-2_core-linux-eglibc_all.opk + Size: 176465 + MD5sum: 7d7984ab0c910ba525410562cfdb5315 + Description: XML parser library + Expat is an XML parser library written in C. It is a stream-oriented parser in + which an application registers handlers for things the parser might find in the + XML document (like start tags). + Homepage: http://expat.sourceforge.net/ + + References ========== |