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: <3BF2F6AD.726DB93E@ece.gatech.edu> Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2001 17:56:45 -0500 From: Charles Wilson X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; I; SunOS 5.8 sun4u) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Gerrit P. Haase" CC: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: new site for my ports is up References: <5314439342.20011114212805@familiehaase.de> <3BF2D797.B0481987@ece.gatech.edu> <20011114211942.GB9636@redhat.com> <1119104841.20011114224550@familiehaase.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-milter (http://amavis.org/) "Gerrit P. Haase" wrote: > > Another question: Why a separate site? Why not avoid the confusion and > > submit the packages to the main release? > > Okidoki, every package that gets in the dist will be removed from this site. > I think I will have to repack all of them, but that is no problem though it > will last some days. > Some needs to be rebuilt then too. > > BTW, is it possible to introduce a new path like '/opt' e.g. for Apache, or > should it better go in /usr/apache, /usr/mysql ...? Having ports/packages "live" on a separate site for a while, until the ports "settle down" enough for the porter/maintainer to be confident of them, is okay. I did that for a year or two with cygutils. Eventually, I migrated the "important" packages over to the new "official" dist. Some stuff cannot be distributed from the cygwin mirror system, for legal or political reasons (think cygipc). [BTW, Gerrit, I have NO problems with you mirroring the cygipc package. Go ahead. But don't try to submit it for inclusion in the official dist, 'cause it won't be accepted] My point was that the off-site versions should install into /usr/local (or /opt/ or whatever, just *NOT* /usr). When you're ready to contribute them to the main dist, THEN (and only then) rebuild them to install into /usr and upload (to sourceware) as a test release. --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/