Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sources.redhat.com Message-ID: <3BAE6B03.6080801@ece.gatech.edu> Date: Sun, 23 Sep 2001 19:06:43 -0400 From: Charles Wilson User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.2) Gecko/20010713 X-Accept-Language: en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Jari Aalto+list.cygwin" CC: cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com Subject: Re: Where are instructions for contributing package to cygwin? References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Jari Aalto+list.cygwin wrote: > Hi, > > I just built Berkeley 3.3.11 database out of the box. It had small error > in the install section of the makefile: It expected Unix binaries > but Cygwin binaries have .exe added. > > The support at http://www.sleepycat.com promised to fix this > in next release. > > Now, > > How can I help to package this into Cygwin distribution? > 1. right now, you can't. We're in a new-packages moratorium until the new setup is released. 2. With db, you need to get in touch with Jason Tishler (There was a thread on this list July 12 where he had some issues with that package -- it built, but rpm couldn't use it.) See http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2001-07/msg00268.html 3. Unless you're willing to maintain the package -- keep up with new releases, answer questions related to the package on the mailing list, etc, -- then it ain't gettin' added. 4. As far as the mechanics of getting a package prepared and uploaded, that's kinda in flux right now; partly because we're in the processes of vetting the new setup...but for some pointers, take a look here: http://www.cygwin.com/faq/faq.html#SEC83 http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-apps/2000-11/msg00055.html and this thread http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-apps/2001-07/msg00002.html --Chuck -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/