Subject: Re: CVS commit: syssrc
To: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@lestat.nas.nasa.gov>
From: Bill Studenmund <wrstuden@nas.nasa.gov>
List: tech-userlevel
Date: 11/22/1999 18:39:51
On Fri, 19 Nov 1999, Jason Thorpe wrote:
> On Fri, 19 Nov 1999 11:08:00 +0100
> Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.lip6.fr> wrote:
>
> > > Committed By: lonhyn
> > > Date: Fri Nov 19 00:43:21 UTC 1999
> > >
> > > Update of /cvsroot/syssrc/sys/arch/powerpc
> > > In directory nb00:/tmp/cvs-serv17548
> > >
> > > Log Message:
> > > Program to convert back and forth between PPM and CHRP boot icon images.
> > >
> > > Status:
> > >
> > > Vendor Tag: lonhyn
> > > Release Tags: CHRPI-1999-11-18
> > >
> > > N syssrc/sys/arch/powerpc/tools/chrpicon/README
> > [...]
> >
> > This this the rigth place for this kind of thing ? Shouldn't it go in
> > /usr/sbin (or whatever is appropriate) and conditionally build depending
> > on ${MACHINE}, so that man pages are always installed ?
> > see usr.sbin/apm for example ...
>
> Well, I'm on the block for this one, because I'm the one that suggest
> he put it there :-)
>
> My thinking was this:
>
> - Not really appropriate for the base system, since it requires
> libppm, etc. (i.e. you have to install the PPM stuff from
> pkgsrc to use it).
>
> - It's more something that developers might use maybe once in
> a while to create an ASCII file (which is the CHRP icon
> format; it's an SGML type) which might then be subsequently
> checked into the tree.
Woudn't a package make more sense in that case?
Take care,
Bill