UPDATED 1-3-98


It is important to remember that unsupported tags will get dropped from the 
file.  If you wish to use pkgbuild on a SPEC file that contains tags it
doesn't understand, make sure to save the file with a new name.  PLEASE backup
all your SPEC files before starting.

IMPORTANT please read the TODO and README files

Why do the unsupported tags go away?  pkgbuild's lexical analyzer reads the 
SPEC file in and when saved out recreates the file from scratch.  Anything 
it doesn't know doesn't get written out.

UNSUPPORTED TAGS
 Any Multilingual tags such as %description -l fr or Summary(fr) for a 
 french description and Summary of the package

 external file lists - %files -f flist.txt
 
 SubPackage tags - Like multiple file lists, descriptions, etc.  This would 
 include devel versions of a package with tags like %files devel
 
 # comments not within a script.  pkgbuild will pick up comments within
 a script. 

 %package

 %trigger

 BuildArchitectures: It does support ExclusiveArch: and ExcludeArch:

 Description: It does support Summary: and %description

 There may be more.  pkgbuild covers most tags defined in MaxRPM(c) with
 the above exceptions.  If you find tags you need that are not supported
 and not listed here please let me know.

Davin S. Hills
dshills@uswest.net
http://www.users.uswest.net/~dshills/linux.html