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As a not a maintainer quite yet - Might put my comment forth anyway... I am closer to favouring 1 then 3 ... and not 2 ... but neither is how I would naturally think of things... - thats assuming that the package is called cygwin that is being talked about in #1 #4 - which is like #1 other then difference stated. -src tarball contains cygwin/<pristine tarball, without renaming or repacking> cygwin/<patchfile> (possibly other stuff in cygwin/, if necessary - post install scripts come to mind) cygwin/<build script or makefile> newly generated bin tarballs placed in cygwin/BUILT newly generated src tarballs placed in cygwin/BUILT The process of building would probably require the construction of some other directories, build scripts choice and also its perogative to clean them up - and yes its sort of sounding rather makefileish ... that way you can just patch ths source only ... or patch and compile ... or patch compile package-bin ... or patch compile install[-strip] and finally clean Not sure what the point of generating src tarballs is... but I left that there... I personally think that 3 files in one directory isnt getting too crowded... and that all the extra directorys seem like overkill. Then again - I also dont care about things looking like RPM or pkg formats... <snip the lot> if I appear to have no clue ... thats understandable ;) Anyway about it I can see that I am actually going to have to write proper patches - rather then just keeping a copy of hacked files :P - all for the best though... Gareth Pearce
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