From d3d623ad7d7d219bb0b148d229ba93703a1765c3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Ian Lynagh Date: Sat, 6 Sep 2008 15:55:19 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Add an explanation of the format of the packages file format --- packages | 15 +++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+) diff --git a/packages b/packages index 49f936b..547e4bf 100644 --- a/packages +++ b/packages @@ -1,6 +1,21 @@ # Note that when adding libraries to this file, you also need to add # the library to the SUBDIRS variable in libraries/Makefile so that they # actually get built +# +# The format of the lines in this file is: +# localpath (optional) tag remotepath VCS +# where +# * localpath is where to put the repository in a checked out tree, +# * remotepath is where the repository is in the central repository, +# * VCS is what version control system the repo uses, +# * the tag, is present, determines when "darcs-all get" will get the +# repo. If there is no tag then it will always get it, but if there +# is a tag then a corresponding flag must be given to darcs-all, e.g. +# if you want to get the packages with an "extralibs" or "testsuite" +# tag then you need to use "darcs-all --extra --testsuite get". +# Support for new tags must be manually added to the darcs-all script. +# +# Lines that start with a '#' are comments. . ghc git utils/hsc2hs hsc2hs darcs utils/haddock haddock2 darcs -- 1.7.10.4