Packaging Guide update try #2

Tom Wickline twickline2 at triad.rr.com
Thu Jan 16 21:40:43 CST 2003


Okay lets try this again

Changelog

1.1 Added myself to authors section
1.2 Updated last revision date
1.3 some small updates
2.2 some small updates

Tom


Index: documentation/packaging.sgml
===================================================================
RCS file: /opt/cvs-commit/wine/documentation/packaging.sgml,v
retrieving revision 1.10
diff -u -r1.10 packaging.sgml
--- documentation/packaging.sgml	13 Jan 2003 18:35:55 -0000	1.10
+++ documentation/packaging.sgml	16 Jan 2003 22:16:27 -0000
@@ -14,6 +14,8 @@
          <para>
            Updated by &name-andreas-mohr; 
<email>&email-andreas-mohr;</email>
          </para>
+          Updated by &name-Tom-Wickline; 
<email>&email-tom-wickline;</email>
+        </para>
      </sect1>

      <sect1 id="pkg-date"> <title>Document Revision Date</title>
@@ -31,7 +33,7 @@
        documentation to include info about new features they implemented).
        </para>
        <para>
-      This document was last revised on November 14, 2001.</para>
+      This document was last revised on January 16, 2003.</para>

        </sect1>

@@ -55,11 +57,11 @@
              <listitem id=PREFIX><para 
id=prefix.id><EnVar>PREFIX</EnVar></para>
                  <para>
                  <envar>PREFIX</envar> is the prefix used when selecting
-                an installation target.  The current default is /usr.
+                an installation target.  The current default is /usr/local.
                  This results in binary installation into /usr/bin,
                  library installation into /usr/wine/lib, and so forth.
                  This value can be overridden by the packager.
-                In fact, <ulink url="http://www.pathname.com/fhs/">FHS 
2.1</ulink>
+                In fact, <ulink url="http://www.pathname.com/fhs/">FHS 
2.2</ulink>
                  specifications suggest that a better
                  prefix is /opt/wine.  Ideally, a packager would also
                  allow the installer to override this value.
@@ -71,7 +73,7 @@
                  <envar>ETCDIR</envar> is the prefix that Wine uses
                  to find the global configuration directory.
                  This can be changed by the configure option sysconfdir.
-                The current default is /etc.
+                The current default is $prefix/etc.
                  </para>
              </listitem>

@@ -219,11 +221,10 @@
            A configuration file
            </para>
            <para>
-          Wine will not run without a configuration file.  Further,
-          no default is currently provided by Wine.  Some packagers may 
attempt
-          to provide (or dynamically generate) a default configuration
-          file.  Some packagers may wish to
-          rely on winesetup to generate the configuration file.
+          Wine will not run without a configuration file.  Wine provides a
+          a sample config file and it can be found in 
/usr/share/doc/wine/samples.
+          Some packagers may attempt to provide (or dynamically 
generate) a default configuration
+          file.  Some packagers may wish to rely on winesetup to 
generate the configuration file.
            </para>
          </listitem>

@@ -246,11 +247,13 @@
                  An initial set of registry entries.
                </para>
                  <para>
-                The current Wine standard is to use the regapi tool
+                The current Wine standard is to use the regedit tool
                  against the 'winedefault.reg' file to generate
                  a default registry.
                  </para>
-                <para>
+                <para>
+                The current preferred method of configuring/installing
+                Wine is to run /toos/wineinstall.
                  There are several other choices that could be made;
                  registries can be imported from a Windows partition.
                  At this time, Wine does not completely support




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