Packaging Guide update

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Here is my second patch to the Packaging Guide.

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
Title: Document Revision Date
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 @@ Updated by &name-andreas-mohr; &email-andreas-mohr; + Updated by &name-Tom-Wickline; &email-tom-wickline; + @@ -31,7 +33,7 @@ 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 +57,11 @@ 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 +73,7 @@ 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 +221,10 @@ 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 +247,13 @@ 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

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