To: Cygwin List <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: cygport packaging question regading obsoleted packages
From: "Dr. Volker Zell" <dr DOT volker DOT zell AT oracle DOT com>
Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2012 15:20:16 +0200
Message-ID: <7zligwqzxr.fsf@vzell-de.de.oracle.com>
User-Agent: Gnus/5.1008 (Gnus v5.10.8) XEmacs/21.4.22 (cygwin32)
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm
Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com
Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com

Hi Yaakov

Is the following the "official" cygport method to create obsoleted packages ?

For example I want to obsolete from the nettle-2.4 package the runtime
parts by providing new empty tarballs so that users who will upgrade to
nettle-2.5 will get rid of unsued dll's related to nettle-2.4.


nettle-2.4-2.cygport
====================

CATEGORY="_obsolete"
SUMMARY="Removed package"
DESCRIPTION="Removed package"

HOMEPAGE="http://www.lysator.liu.se/~nisse/nettle/"
SRC_URI="http://www.lysator.liu.se/~nisse/archive/${P}.tar.gz
         http://www.lysator.liu.se/~nisse/archive/${P}.tar.gz.sig"

abi=4_3
hogweed_abi=2_1
# Only the runtime packages should be obsoleted"
PKG_NAMES="lib${PN}${abi} libhogweed${hogweed_abi}"
libnettle4_3_CONTENTS= #empty
libhogweed2_1_CONTENTS= #empty


03:08 PM [507]> cygport nettle-2.4-2.cygport prep pkg
>>> Preparing nettle-2.4-2
*** Info: SOURCE 1 signature follows:
gpg: WARNING: using insecure memory!
gpg: please see http://www.gnupg.org/faq.html for more information
gpg: Signature made Sat, Sep 03, 2011  3:04:13 PM CEST using DSA key ID A8F4C2FD
gpg: Can't check signature: public key not found
>>> Unpacking source nettle-2.4.tar.gz
>>> Preparing working source directory
*** Info: applying patch nettle-2.4-2.cygwin.patch:
patching file CYGWIN-PATCHES/README
*** Info: applying patch nettle-2.4-2.src.patch:
patching file Makefile.in
patching file configure.ac
patching file testsuite/Makefile.in
>>> Packaging nettle-2.4-2
>>> Creating binary package(s)
>>> libnettle4_3-2.4-2.tar.bz2
*** Info: Creating empty package

>>> libhogweed2_1-2.4-2.tar.bz2
*** Info: Creating empty package

*** Info: No debug files, skipping debuginfo subpackage

>>> Checking packages for missing or duplicate files
find: `*': No such file or directory

>>> Creating source patches
 CYGWIN-PATCHES/README |   83 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 Makefile.in           |   16 +++------
 configure.ac          |    6 +--
 testsuite/Makefile.in |    2 -
 4 files changed, 92 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-)
>>> Creating source package
nettle-2.4-2.cygport
nettle-2.4-2.cygwin.patch
nettle-2.4-2.src.patch
nettle-2.4.tar.gz
nettle-2.4.tar.gz.sig

>>> libnettle4_3 requires:
>>> libhogweed2_1 requires:


This is what I get.

-rw-r--r--+ 1 vzell None 1085342 Aug 30 14:49 nettle-2.4-2-src.tar.bz2
-rw-r--r--+ 1 vzell None      14 Aug 30 14:49 libhogweed2_1-2.4-2.tar.bz2
-rw-r--r--+ 1 vzell None      14 Aug 30 14:49 libnettle4_3-2.4-2.tar.bz2


What about the "find: `*': No such file or directory" error ?

And should I put in the nettle-2.5-1.cygport an explicit

REQUIRES="libnettle4_3 libhogweed2_1"

so that these will be pulled in when somebody installs nettle-2.5 ?
(effectively it should delete the old dll's)


Thanks
  Volker
  

--
Problem reports:       http://cygwin.com/problems.html
FAQ:                   http://cygwin.com/faq/
Documentation:         http://cygwin.com/docs.html
Unsubscribe info:      http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple