branch: elpa-admin
commit 059dde5614d4aebd00eefb19ed7f624ab0d6f8a7
Author: Stefan Monnier <monn...@iro.umontreal.ca>
Commit: Stefan Monnier <monn...@iro.umontreal.ca>
* GNUmakefile (RULE-singlepkg): Add rules to install&compile each package
---
README.org | 15 +++++++++++++++
1 file changed, 15 insertions(+)
diff --git a/README.org b/README.org
index 38481f9..9c3aa0c 100644
--- a/README.org
+++ b/README.org
@@ -23,6 +23,21 @@ to do:
rm archive/[PKG]-[VERSION].tar; make build/[PKG]
+* Using packages in-place
+
+The packages can be installed and used in-place. First you need to make
+sure the package(s) you can about are placed in the `packages` subdirectory,
+e.g. with `make externals`, and then you can to add that `.../packages`
+to your `package-directory-list`. And once that is done you can do:
+
+ make packages/[PKG]
+
+to create the [PKG]-pkg.el and [PKG]-autoloads.el file as well as compile
+all the ELisp files in that package. You can also do that on all the
+packages with:
+
+ make
+
* Guidance for accepting packages
** We don't ask for copyright assignments to include packages in NonGNU ELPA.
