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From: Corinna Vinschen <cygwin@cygwin.com>
Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2000 09:44:04 +0100
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Subject: Re: where to find nslookup for Cygwin?
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On Monday 18 December 2000 06:24, Chris Abbey wrote:
> At 20:50 12/17/00 -0800, Stephen C. Biggs wrote:
> >Thank you for the reply.  This does NOT entirely answer my question.
>
> hmm... as has been pointed out, I didn't realize the difference
> between preparing tarballs for the main distro and for the franken.de
> server, those details will have to wait for someone more familiar
> with the franken.de way of doing things to come on line. :( sorry.
>
>  > How can it be pre-patched and ALSO cygwin-specific??
>
> in this case I'd interpret "pre-patched" as "previously patched",
> not "before being patched". So the tarball is already containing
> the cygwin specific code.

Create a patched source archive and a separate patch file. This should
accomodate all needs.

BTW: Please build your binary package so that it uses /usr/local as
prefix (which should be the default) and not /usr. This way it's easier
to distinguish between packages from the base distribution and external
packages.

Corinna

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