Mail Archives: cygwin-apps/2002/05/01/09:51:16
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Christopher Faylor [mailto:cgf AT redhat DOT com]
> Sent: Wednesday, May 01, 2002 2:43 AM
> >Chris, can we get that "external-src: other-pkg-name" thing
> into upset?
> > (or "other-src" or whatever) Reminder:
>
> It's pretty complicated to add. If you specify external-src
> it will potentially have to add test, prev, curr entries for
> the packages.
>
> However, IMO, it makes sense for this option to actually be
> passed into setup.ini so that setup.exe can understand that
> this is basically a symbolic link rather than a "copy".
Setup doesn't need any changes - the
source:
tag has all the functionality Chuck needs now. It'll only download the
file once (well, there are some corner cases, but relatively few and far
between).
> I don't remember if Robert already indicated which method
> he'd prefer. Maybe he already has plans to do the right thing
> when multiple packages refer to the same source tar ball. I
> seem to recall that this came up before but I don't remember
> what the decision was.
I think that the easiest way is to allow setup.hint: to include the
literal source: tag.
As far as setup.ini's lex and yacc rules, any valid path is ok, so there
is no need to consider adding a new tag.
Rob
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