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Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2001 17:56:45 -0500
From: Charles Wilson <cwilson AT ece DOT gatech DOT edu>
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Subject: Re: new site for my ports is up
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"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

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