find_list_entry.c and "FNM_LEADING_DIR"?

[Natanael Copa]

Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> On Mon, 17 Apr 2006, Glenn L. McGrath wrote:
> 
> by the way, perhaps i should justify why i want the behaviour i've
> been talking about.  i wrote a small set of shell scripts to support a
> local software packaging system.  it looks a lot like ipkg/dpkg, where
> each package is pretty much a tarball, but with an additional
> top-level "meta" directory containing pre-inst, post-inst stuff,
> version number, etc.

Have you seen apk-tools? Sounds like its exactly what youare doing.
(tarball + optional pre/post install stuff)

http://apk-tools.sourceforge.net

It also has support for remote fetching (http/ftp/scp/rsync) and
updating packages.

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Natanael Copa