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authorNorbert Preining <preining@logic.at>2008-03-29 14:28:19 +0000
committerNorbert Preining <preining@logic.at>2008-03-29 14:28:19 +0000
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too many changes, see email, basically tl.-package-manager work
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+Documentation of the content of the %vars hash which is the only way to
+transport ship information between various installer menus and the main
+program.
+
+1) collections and schemes
+--------------------------
+selected collections/schemes
+ collection-<collection> 0|1 OUT
+ scheme-<scheme> 0|1 OUT
+total number of collections
+ n_collections_available 84 IN
+and the number of collections selected:
+ n_collections_selected 1 OUT
+the selected scheme
+ selected_scheme scheme-<scheme> OUT
+
+
+2) platforms
+------------
+location of the arch
+ diskbin_<arch-os> 0|1 IN/OUT
+ netbin_<arch-os> 0|1 IN/OUT
+the current one
+ inst_platform <arch-os> IN
+the current platform ???
+ this_platform <arch-os> IN
+number of systems available in total
+ n_systems_available 15 IN
+number of systems selected
+ n_systems_selected 3 OUT
+
+
+3) options
+----------
+build all formats
+ option_fmt 0|1 OUT
+letter instead of A4
+ option_letter 0|1 OUT
+install symlinks (on unix)
+ option_symlinks 0|1 OUT
+and the respective destinations for the symlinks
+ sys_info <path/to/info/dir> OUT
+ sys_bin /usr/local/bin OUT
+ sys_man /usr/local/man OUT
+do install the doc files
+ option_doc 0|1 OUT
+do install the src files
+ option_src 0|1 OUT
+destination paths
+ TEXMFSYSVAR /home/norbert/tltest/2008/texmf-var OUT
+ TEXDIR /home/norbert/tltest/2008 OUT
+ TEXMFLOCAL /home/norbert/tltest/texmf-local OUT
+ TEXMFHOME ~/texmf OUT
+
+4) other stuff ???
+------------------
+total size to be used
+ total_size 54 DEDUCED
+no idea ????
+ page 0
+
+
+NEW LAYOUT
+==========
+
+%MediaData = (
+ media => CD|DVD|NET
+ location => /path/to/master | base-url
+ release => NNNN
+ tlpdb => the respective tlpdb
+ all_collections => [ ... ]
+ std_collections => [ ... ]
+ lang_collections => [ ... ]
+ lang_doc_collections => [ ... ]
+ schemes => [ ... ]
+ n_collections => NN
+ n_schemes => NN
+ diskbins => [ ... ]
+ netbins => [ ... ]
+ n_systems_available => NN (== #(#diskbins u #netbins))
+ this_platform => <arch-os>
+)
+
+%vars = (
+ systems => [ ... ] # those selected for installation
+ collections => [ ... ] # those selected for installation
+ selected_scheme => scheme-<scheme>
+ option_fmt => 0|1
+ option_letter 0|1 OUT
+ option_symlinks 0|1 OUT
+ sys_info <path/to/info/dir> OUT
+ sys_bin /usr/local/bin OUT
+ sys_man /usr/local/man OUT
+ option_doc 0|1 OUT
+ option_src 0|1 OUT
+ TEXMFSYSVAR /home/norbert/tltest/2008/texmf-var OUT
+ TEXDIR /home/norbert/tltest/2008 OUT
+ TEXMFLOCAL /home/norbert/tltest/texmf-local OUT
+ TEXMFHOME ~/texmf OUT
+)