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Re^4: What is the format of a .packlist file for a PPM repository?by LittleGreyCat (Scribe) |
on Oct 21, 2007 at 17:56 UTC ( [id://646283]=note: print w/replies, xml ) | Need Help?? |
"The messages from ppm are perhaps misleading; ppm is looking for either a package.lst or a package.xml file, not a literal "packlist" file. If it doesn't find either of these summary files, it will fetch and parse the ppd files within this directory, if there are any. The summary files are just there to save ppm downloading and parsing individual ppd files. Try making a local repository and populating it with some ppd files, and the corresponding .tar.gz or .zip archives referenced in the CODEBASE element, and see if that works."
This is what is confusing me. I may not be driving the GUI correctly but I expected all the packages in the PPM repository to be shown in the list of packages available to be installed. Is it perhaps like the command line 'ppm' where you have to search on key words before anything appears?
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