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authorP. J. McDermott <pehjota>2012-11-18 13:01:21 (EST)
committer P. J. McDermott <pjm@nac.net>2012-11-18 13:01:21 (EST)
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Add notes on the presented packaging workflow.
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@@ -12,6 +12,10 @@ This tutorial assumes some knowledge of the UNIX shell command language and
utilities (see the "Shell and Utilities" volume of [POSIX.1-2008][posix]) and at
least basic familiarity with [makefile syntax][posix-makefile].
+This tutorial presents one possible packaging workflow that seems to work well.
+There is no mandatory workflow to packaging. The only requirements are those
+made by the source package format and any build helper utilities that are used.
+
Getting Started
===============
@@ -109,7 +113,8 @@ Looking Through the Source
--------------------------
With a ["no-op"][no-op] target in `build`, we can make **opkbuild**(1) prepare a
-[work area][spf-work-area] with the unpacked source code and stop. So begin
+[work area][spf-work-area] with the unpacked source code and stop. This target
+isn't required by SPF 2.0, but it seems to facilitate a nice workflow. So begin
writing `build` as follows:
#!/usr/bin/make -f