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Friday, 20 Oct 2006
New package formats for developers
Ingo Schmidt

I'd like to welcome all GullFOSS readers. My name is Ingo Schmidt, I'm working for the StarOffice/OpenOffice.org team in Hamburg and I'm the lead of the installation project on OpenOffice.org.

Today I would like to inform you about two new package formats, that we introduce with the child workspace “native62” into the build src680 m188. This two new packing formats are especially important for development reasons and for platforms, that are currently not supported by the native installer packing mechanism.

This new package formats are:


“archive” and “installed”

“archive”: The installation set is packed as zip (Windows) or tar.gz (Non-Windows).
“installed”: You get an already installed Office product.

The key for this new kind of installation set, is the environment variable PKGFORMAT (already supported values for PKGFORMAT are “rpm”, “pkg”, “deb”, ...).

You can set the value of PKGFORMAT to “archive” and/or “ installed” in your shell or you can use it only for the current command on the command line (for example in “instsetoo_native/util”) :

“dmake openoffice_de PKGFORMAT=installed”



When using the installation sets be aware, that this installation sets are not complete. For example the system integration is missing, but I suppose that most developers even prefer this. And yes, to make this new products even more useful, this Offices are configured in a way, that the local user data are located inside this Office installation. Therefore there is no chance to conflict with any other Office installation. And the removal of this products can happen in the most simple way by “rm -rf <officedir>” or the removal tool you prefer.

You see, this installation sets are designed to become developers darling.



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