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| Subject: | Re: Making a package obsolete |
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| Cc: | Ken Brown <kbrown AT cornell DOT edu> |
| From: | Jon Turney <jon DOT turney AT dronecode DOT org DOT uk> |
| Message-ID: | <20762138-fb8e-3842-6b06-928f264b4549@dronecode.org.uk> |
| Date: | Mon, 15 May 2017 16:56:28 +0100 |
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| In-Reply-To: | <46439427-ebcd-8b95-5be5-e9eff4daac6f@cornell.edu> |
On 15/05/2017 15:30, Ken Brown wrote: > On 5/14/2017 1:38 PM, Jon Turney wrote: >> On 13/05/2017 20:44, Ken Brown wrote: >>> On 5/13/2017 7:12 AM, Jon Turney wrote: >>>> On 12/05/2017 22:02, Ken Brown wrote: >>>>> I have a package that is going to become obsolete, but its contents >>>>> will >>>>> be distributed among several other packages. So I can't handle >>>>> this by >>>>> defining OBSOLETES in any one .cygport file. Is there a standard >>>>> way to >>>>> deal with this using cygport, or should I just create the necessary >>>>> tarballs and .hint file manually? >>>> >>>> I think the best way to do that is to bump your package revision, >>>> change >>>> it's category to _obsolete, make it's contents empty, and make it >>>> depend >>>> on the packages which are replacing it. >>> >>> Yes, that was my first thought. But there's no longer a source file for >>> the obsolete package[1], and cygport complains that SRC_URI must be >>> defined. Maybe cygport should be patched to allow an empty SRC_URI when >>> the category is _obsolete. Or do you see another way around this? >> >> I would think you can use the same SRC_URI as previously, but set >> PKG_CONTENTS="" and PKG_IGNORE="*" ? > > You're right, I can do something like that. I was being overly pedantic > in wanting SRC_URI to be "accurate". Sorry for the noise. You can always make an empty tarball called texlive-collection-htmlxml-20170515.tar.xz or whatever, and use that for SRC_URI. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
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