Newsgroups: news.software.b
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Cnews MANIFEST file
Message-ID: <1990Sep12.223423.23200@zoo.toronto.edu>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <1990Sep12.132421.2175@squirrel.mh.nl>
Date: Wed, 12 Sep 90 22:34:23 GMT

In article <1990Sep12.132421.2175@squirrel.mh.nl> Johan Vromans <jv@mh.nl> writes:
> - Is there an official MANIFEST file for the Cnews source kit
>   available? 

Not at present.  I should probably do something about that.

> - Any other means to make sure the kit is complete? 

Simple truncation errors can be guarded against, if you're looking at
the cnews.Z distribution as we ship it, by looking for "echo done" as
the last line.  There is no real protection against gaps in the middle,
however.

> - How about a "make distribution_kit" entry in the Makefile?

There are an abundance of Makefiles involved :-), including some that
don't go out with the distribution.  I think I'll defer this one until
I find time to do the long-promised shakeup of the configuration stuff
(which will include Makefile upheavals).
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