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PACKINIT(1)                                                   General Commands Manual                                                  PACKINIT(1)

NAME
packinit - initialize or update your .package file SYNOPSIS
packinit DESCRIPTION
Packinit will create (or update) a .package file, so that all the dist tools can be smart and know some basic things about your package, such as its revision number, or the e-mail address of its maintainer. Packinit should be run from the top level directory of your package, before using any other dist tool. Later on, you may rerun it to update some of its values. Packinit will create a single file and leave the remaining of your directory undisturbed. VARIABLES
Packinit defines the following variables in your .package file: baserev The baseline revision number. cext The list (space separated) of file extensions identifying potential holders of C symbols. This is added to the default .[chyl] extension lookup. Shell-style patterns may be used. changelog The name of the ChangeLog file managed by patlog. changercs Boolean stating whether RCS logs are to be made part of ChangeLog. copyright Name of the file used for Copyright expansion. ftpdir Directory where patches are located on the FTP site. ftpsite Name of the FTP site where patches may be retrieved from. list_addr Address of the package mailing list where users may post messages to. list_manager Type of list manager attached to the list administrative request address. list_name Name of the package users mailing list. list_request Address where subscribe and unsubscribe requests for the package mailing list should be sent to. list_sub Format of the subscribe requests. list_unsub Format of the unsubscribe requests. list_users A boolean string set to 'true' when there is a mailing list set up for discussion about the package. mailagent A boolean string set to 'true' when people are allowed to retrieve patches via mailagent @SH mailpatch commands. maintloc E-mail address of the package maintainer, preferably in Internet format. maintname Full name of the package maintainer. mydiff Name of the diff program to be used when computing a patch. newsgroups Newsgroup list where new patches should be posted to, empty for no postings. orgname Full name of the organization where the package maitainer resides, or path to a file containing that name. package Name of the package. packver Version of the packinit program that built the .package file. patchbranch Name of the RCS branch used to store subsequent updates of a file after a baseline has been released. recipients People who should be sent newly issued patches. shext The list (space separated) of file extensions identifying potential holders of shell symbols. This is added to the default .SH extension lookup. Shell-style patterns may be used. Note that only .SH extensions are looked up by Configure for auto- matic shell extraction with variable substitutions, no matter what this variable is set to. FILE
.package File holding all the package-related values AUTHORS
Larry Wall <lwall@netlabs.com> (version 2.0) Raphael Manfredi <ram@hptnos02.grenoble.hp.com> SEE ALSO
dist(7). ram PACKINIT(1)

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EDUSERS(1)						      General Commands Manual							EDUSERS(1)

NAME
edusers - edit users list created by package SYNOPSIS
edusers [system [version]] DESCRIPTION
This command lets you safely edit the users list created by the package command. It locks the file before launching the editor, hence pro- tecting against any concurrent update by some package command that could arrive at the same time (by e-mail). The level of protection this locking buys you depends on the locking policy you have configured in your ~/.mailagent. If you are within a package source tree, all you need to say is edusers to edit the users file for that package. In order for that particular feature to work properly, the package must have been placed under dist control, or at least the packinit command from the dist package must have been run. Otherwise, you may specify a system name, and optionally a version number if that is not enough to disambiguate. Using '-' will get you the lattest version available. In any case, there must be a proper setting of the distribs file to use this command. If that file is not accurate, the package command will not be able to produce a users file anyway. ENVIRONMENT
The editor is taken out of the EDITOR variable if defined, then from the VISUAL variable, defaulting to /usr/ae if none of the variables is set. FILES
~/.mailagent configuration file for mailagent. Spool/distribs distribution list, same file as the one used for mailpatch. System/.package file created by dist's packinit command to indicate the root of the source tree for that package. System/users list of users of that system. Log/agentlog mailagent's log file. AUTHOR
Raphael Manfredi <Raphael_Manfredi@pobox.com> SEE ALSO
mailagent(1), metaconfig(1), package(1), packinit(1). EDUSERS(1)
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