From eb35e42f7b6e65f31c6969cccd00b9ae470458fd Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Tom Wickline Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2003 00:27:57 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Added myself to authors section. Updated last revision date. Some small updates. --- documentation/packaging.sgml | 26 +++++++++++++++----------- 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-) diff --git a/documentation/packaging.sgml b/documentation/packaging.sgml index 96cb14ed4c5..d476691105c 100644 --- a/documentation/packaging.sgml +++ b/documentation/packaging.sgml @@ -14,6 +14,9 @@ Updated by &name-andreas-mohr; &email-andreas-mohr; + + Updated by &name-tom-wickline; &email-tom-wickline; + Document Revision Date @@ -31,7 +34,7 @@ documentation to include info about new features they implemented). - This document was last revised on November 14, 2001. + This document was last revised on January 16, 2003. @@ -55,11 +58,11 @@ PREFIX PREFIX 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, FHS 2.1 + In fact, FHS 2.2 specifications suggest that a better prefix is /opt/wine. Ideally, a packager would also allow the installer to override this value. @@ -71,7 +74,7 @@ ETCDIR 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. @@ -219,11 +222,10 @@ A configuration file - 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. @@ -246,11 +248,13 @@ An initial set of registry entries. - 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. - + + 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