[Scrollkeeper-devel] relocatable package support

[Laszlo K. <las...@su...>]

Hi All,

I am looking into implementing the relocatable package support according
to this algorithm:

http://www.geocrawler.com/archives/3/6429/2000/11/50/4678568/

First, I think we should rename the scrollkeeper-update-identifier
script to scrollkeeper-update-url.

Summarizing it we have the following features:

1. Update the url in one OMF file if an absolute url path is specified.
2. Update the url in one OMF file if only a base filename in the OMF
file and a directory name (where the doc resides) is specified
(recursive search down the dir for the doc).
3. Update the url in one OMF file if a relative filename in the OMF file
and a directory name (where the doc resides) is specified (append the
relative path to the dir).

There would be one more needed:

4. Update the url in a set of OMF files in the same subdirectory
structure with urls from docs specified by a directory only. Both the
base filename (2) and the relative filename (3) should work in this
case.

The user should be able to do something like this:

scrollkeeper-update-url $prefix/share/omf/scrollkeeper
$prefix/doc/scrollkeeper

and this should do everything they need.

This can become quite complicated to be used together with
scrollkeeper-preinstall, it will need a good documentation.

Thoughts?

Laszlo