From: Steen Skole
                                                           Date: 07 Nov 1999 


             VLT-SW-OCT99 - RELEASE NOTES FOR PACKAGE TOOL
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This version is the first release of pkgin, which is a VLT 
common SW tool to install VLT SW packages.
pkgin is to be used for all VLT applications/systems, the 
only exception being the VLT common SW package (the tape),
which might only partly be adapted to pkgin.
 
pkgin consists of the dictionary ESO-VLT-DIC.PKGIN and the 
following 5 scripts:

- pkginBuild 
  Builds the SW and either installs it directly on the local
  machine, or compresses the SW in one single file to be used
  by pkginInstall

- pkginInstall 
  Installs the SW on the local machine using a compressed file 
  containing the built SW.

- pkginUnziptar
  Help utility used internally by pkginInstall to decompress 
  SW from a zipped tar file. However, the utility can also be 
  invoked directly from the command line.

- pkginClean
  Help utility that cleans (make clean) one single module 
  specified in the command line, or all modules specified 
  in the configuration file.

- pkginEnvCreate
  A patch used internally by pkginBuild. Prior to calling
  vccEnvCreate it appends PROCESSES.append and RtapEnvTable.append
  to the files PROCESSES and RtapEnvTable.normal, respectively.
  This patch will eventually be implemented in vccEnvCreate,
  and pkginEnvCreate will be removed.


A parameter file (PAF) serves as a configuration of how to carry 
out an installation. Possible PAF keywords are defined in the 
dictionary ESO-VLT-DIC.PKGIN.

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