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Subject:	Re: Problem with mksetupini
To:	Sunny Lin <sunny DOT khh AT gmail DOT com>, cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
References:	<CAL93U-KtEvR+D1uraT-Q+QUOutZJeBBn3mWsF9rUUo9YbkgSMw AT mail DOT gmail DOT com> <3c228f7f-8af0-fbd6-8b60-ca8d0736b264 AT dronecode DOT org DOT uk>
From:	Jon Turney <jon DOT turney AT dronecode DOT org DOT uk>
Message-ID:	<a1e9473d-7720-4773-ce3e-4de2872efb57@dronecode.org.uk>
Date:	Wed, 15 Feb 2017 15:13:32 +0000
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On 15/02/2017 14:08, Jon Turney wrote:
> On 15/02/2017 07:51, Sunny Lin wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I encountered a problem and hope someone here can help me through.
>>
>> I need to build a 32-bit Cygwin distribution with customized packages.
>> I have calm package installed.  I am learning to use mksetupini to
>> create a setup.ini file.  I use commands similar to the following but
>> always generate an INI file with only a header, no package information
>> in the file.
>>
>> mksetupini --arch x86 --inifile=setup.ini --releasearea=.
>>
>> I followed instruction in the following link and got the same result.
>> https://cygwin.com/package-server.html
>
> Reading over that, it looks like step 2 is in need of a bit of updating
> and might have led you astray.

I fixed up those instructions a bit.

> The directory you are pointing to as releasearea should contain x86/,
> x86_64/ and noarch/ directories, which should contain a release/
> directory, which should contain the various package directories and
> subdirectories.
>
> If that layout isn't followed, mksetupini won't be able to find the
> packages and thus they won't appear in the output setup.ini

It seems there is a problem with calm where it doesn't handle symlinks, 
as those instructions expect.

I've pushed out an updated calm 20170215-1 package with a fix for that.

Thanks for reporting this problem.


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