Mail Archives: cygwin-apps/2001/11/11/18:46:08
On Mon, Nov 12, 2001 at 09:45:16AM +1100, Robert Collins wrote:
>I've uploaded your updated tarballs to the redhat server, when they've
>got to a mirror or two, you are good to go with an announcement.
>
>1 nit, your setup.hint didn't have a requires: line, so I just used the
>current one - requires: ash cygwin.
Actually the setup.hint was really screwed up. I got a bunch of errors from
the setup.ini updater.
The syntax for setup.hint is not exactly the same as for setup.ini.
You don't put [prev] and [curr] in it.
You don't put install: or source: in it. It's supposed to be a "hint"
for information that can't be inferred otherwise, like category, sdesc,
or requires.
Also, AFAIK, setup.exe doesn't allow different categories or requirements
for different versions since these fields apply on a per-package not
a per-version basis.
sdesc is the short, one line description of the package. It is not the
name of the package. ldesc is a multi-line, detailed description. It
is not the one-line description.
If you do need to specify the current/prev/test version, you use the
version number, not the name of the tar archive.
Anyway, I've modified the setup.hint to this:
sdesc: The GNU text file processing utilities
category: base
requires: ash cygwin
This makes the textutils setup.hint similar to the other setup.hint's
in latest/contrib.
cgf
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