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On 2014-08-04 14:16, Philip Daniels wrote:
> A while ago I asked a question on Stack Overflow about doing a basic
> install task with cygport, but got no answers. Too esoteric perhaps.

Support is only provided (as best we can) through the mailing lists here 
on cygwin.com.  Advice provided through third-party channels is likely 
to be erroneous.

> I think it should be easy for anyone who knows cygport, it's a basic "copy
> some files to a known location" task.

In this particular case, I would suggest just using a git snapshot of 
your forked repository; see git.cygclass in the cygport manual for details.


Yaakov


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