Mail Archives: cygwin-apps/2001/11/05/17:27:17
On Mon, Nov 05, 2001 at 05:11:56PM -0500, Charles Wilson wrote:
> Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>
> > On Mon, Nov 05, 2001 at 04:21:07PM -0500, Charles Wilson wrote:
> >
> >>My proposal (revised)
> >> Use the standard RPM tree (SOURCES, BUILD, SPEC, RPMS, SRPMS)
> >> -src is a tarball which contains
> >> SOURCES/foo-VER-REL-orig.tar.bz2
> >> SOURCES/foo-VER-REL.diff (creates the cgywin README)
> >> SOURCES/foo-VER-REL-X.diff (if necessary)
> >> SPECS/foo-VER-REL.*
> >> .spec or .sh or .rule or whatever.
> >> setup unpacks this into /usr/src/cygwin.
> >> the end. Nothing else is specified yet.
> >>
> >
> > Your proposal has a disadvantage: The src package isn't
> > compatible to the current packaging scheme.
> >
> > ==> All packages have to be repacked. A clear no-no, IMO.
>
>
> No, it IS compatible -- since you unpack the -src tarball at the
> "usr/src/cygwin/ level, OLD style src tarballs will create this:
>
> /usr/src/cygwin/foo-VER/*
>
> NEW style src tarballs will create this:
>
> /usr/src/cygwin/SOURCES/foo-VER-orig.tar.bz2
> etc.
Hmm, sounds ok.
> Granted, *ideally* you'd unpack new -src tarballs at the /usr/src/cygwin/
> level, and you'd unpack old -src tarballs at the /usr/src/ level, but I
> don't think my way is too terrible...
No. Repacking would be terrible.
Corinna
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