From dd85dee94b6e4cac76d63af471833c7796f20f29 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: P. J. McDermott Date: Sun, 18 Nov 2012 13:01:21 -0500 Subject: Add notes on the presented packaging workflow. --- (limited to 'dev/packaging/tutorials') diff --git a/dev/packaging/tutorials/basic.mdwn b/dev/packaging/tutorials/basic.mdwn index 263fd0d..b5e0e0e 100644 --- a/dev/packaging/tutorials/basic.mdwn +++ b/dev/packaging/tutorials/basic.mdwn @@ -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 -- cgit v0.9.1