Re: address@hidden: swbis-0.463 released]

[Alfred M\. Szmidt]

   What is the name of the package from which this bunch of files was
   produced?

Not sure what you mean, it was produced by a program called swpackage
which is in swbis.

   Where in this is the executable?

The executables are (from what I can gather):

       POSIX-Software-2.1/POSIX-Software/agent/usr/lbin/swagent
       POSIX-Software-2.1/POSIX-Software/agent/usr/sbin/swagentd
       POSIX-Software-2.1/POSIX-Software/commands/usr/sbin/swinstall
       POSIX-Software-2.1/POSIX-Software/commands/usr/sbin/swpackage

   Where in this is the source code (or is there any)?

The source isn't distributed with the binary package.  The binary
package is created by using a file which lists a bunch of attributes.
I attached the file that is used by swbis.

Really, I found swbis so revolting to look at that I have simply
erased it from my memory.  Maybe the author of swbis can fill in on
this, since I can't (the information that I learnt might be totally
wrong, but swbis is far far to complex no matter how wrong I might
be).

===File ~/swbis-0.463/PSF===================================
# File: PSF
distribution
  
   description "Swbis is a free and from-scratch GPL'ed implementation of
IEEE 1387.2-1995 Std (Part 2: Software Administration) which describes a
format and utilities for software packaging. [The IEEE standard is superseded by
ISO 15068-2,1999, and it is almost identical to the Open Group spec CAE C701 
which is available on the Internet at no monetary cost].
swbis is a GNU package. Its home page is http://www.gnu.org/software/swbis
"

  title "swbis - posix software packaging."
  copyrighters <copyrighters
  COPYING <COPYING
  checksig  <bin/checksig.sh
  tag swbis
# Vendor definition

vendor
   tag jhla1
   title Jim Lowe
   qualifier author
   description "independent software author"

bundle
   tag swbis
   revision 0.0
  
product
   tag swbis
   revision 0.0
   vendor_tag jhla1
   title "swbis - posix software packaging."
   control_directory "" 

fileset
    tag sources
    control_directory ""
    title Source Code
    description "The source distribution."
    file_permissions -o 0 -g 0
    directory .
    file *
    exclude catalog
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