NAME

mkbom − Create or modify a bill of materials

SYNOPSIS

mkbom source [ filelist ] bomfile

DESCRIPTION

Mkbom creates or updates an existing bill-of-materials file (see bom(5)). If source is a directory, mkbom generates bill-of-materials information for that directory and adds it to bomfile; if source is a bill-of-materials file, mkbom adds its information to bomfile.  If bomfile already exists, the new entries are added without deleting bomfile’s old contents; however, a reference that is in both source and bomfile is replaced with the version from source.

A filelist may be supplied to request that only a subset of the files in source be transferred into bomfile. Filelist should be a text file containing the paths of the entries to transfer, one per line.  The paths should be specified relative to the root of source. 

The presence of a particular file in filelist implicitly selects all of its parent directories; however, children of directories listed in filelist are not copied unless explicitly listed. 

For example, if a text file named myfiles contains

./lib/tmac/tmac.e
./lib/tmac/tmac.r
./lib/term

the command

mkbom /usr myfiles /tmp/newbom.bom

generates a BOM containing reference for the files ./lib/tmac/tmac.e and ./lib/tmac/tmac.r, and the directories ., ./lib, ./term, and ./lib/tmac. 

FILES

/usr/lib/NextStep/BaseSystem.bom − BOM for the non-optional parts of NeXTSTEP

/NextLibrary/Receipts/∗.pkg/∗.bom − BOMs for other installed packages

SEE ALSO

bom(5), lsbom(8), showmods(8)

7th Edition  —  January 5, 1993