
About "mine"
============

Mine is the ROCK Linux 2.0 package manager. Please read the file GEM-MINE
for details.


Installing
==========

Simply type "make" and "make install".


Redistributed Source
====================

This source distribution of "mine" contains sources from the following other
packages. "mine" does not depend on any external library except the libc
and the following libraries which are statically linked with "mine" and are
part of this source distribution:

 * cdb-0.75/ contains the cdb 0.75 distribution as available for download
   from the cdb homepage <http://cr.yp.to/cdb.html> with the cdb-0.75.patch
   patch (as found in this directory) applied.

 * libtar-1.2.5/ contains the libtar 1.2.5 distribution as available for
   download from the libtar homepage <http://www-dev.cso.uiuc.edu/libtar/>.

 * bzip-1.0.2/ contains the bzip2 1,0,2 distribution as available for download
   from the bzip2 homepage <http://sources.redhat.com/bzip2/>.


Portability
===========

The "mine" application is only tested on Linux 2.4 on ia32 with glibc-2.2.4
and GNU CC so far. Tests with other libc's, on other architectures and with
other C-compilers need to be done.

