Re: [Module-build-general] Re: Figuring out signature stuff

[Ken W. <ke...@ma...>]

On Thursday, May 22, 2003, at 01:35  AM, Autrijus Tang wrote:

> On Wed, May 21, 2003 at 10:09:44PM -0500, Ken Williams wrote:
>>  1) The distdir (e.g. Sample-Module-0.11/ ) is created, including
>>     a META.yml file inside it
>>  2) Module::Signature creates a SIGNATURE file in the distdir, 
>> scanning
>>     the contents of the distdir and the MANIFEST inside it
>>
>> Because it seems like the distribution should be created, then signed.
>
> This can work, except that MANIFEST need to include SIGNATURE in its
> listing.

[following up again on the dropped issue]

This kind of chicken-egg problem is tough to deal with in MakeMaker, 
and I haven't really figured out whether it's any better in M::B yet.  
My standard approach to this is to make a dummy file in the main 
directory, let distdir copy it into the distdir/, and then overwrite 
the copied dummy file with the real info.

The main drawback to this is just that it's a little messy, the 
SIGNATURE in the main directory is superfluous.  But it should *work*.

  -Ken