X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=sourceware.org; h=list-id :list-unsubscribe:list-subscribe:list-archive:list-post :list-help:sender:message-id:date:from:mime-version:to:subject :references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; q=dns; s=default; b=IROEJigEvum3g4lrUFBFtL4htLDCA563MDlYTQvWiIP D5KJOA5Vu3D5uq8hzak4PWyVg6U0TiEPPF42Re5H3EloEFDFm3Piqio/oEdp6LpB jaRXIhfJ0zbbt+RhlOFVAqe+1rUTDSwXS9ZACCY696dLKlvI9YibWo/kjAr0d4dg = DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed; d=sourceware.org; h=list-id :list-unsubscribe:list-subscribe:list-archive:list-post :list-help:sender:message-id:date:from:mime-version:to:subject :references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; s=default; bh=4+hWI/VS5fX1sGGMv264m/GACug=; b=Re21yuHfAUXWhU/Tx uFQwxmI+niRN+9eIp3uStzOvy0+yOouQSvYXyPbw8UUVvaMUjvBnH0s7LBxsdWnh Jc2Jfp9cpUocRNlwJtkc3WD7iAzF8E5iW7u1tjHFJfN2VKVnilpfS+dKNOQ77OQM /KrXwOdFz9SfCKVLziMIzra9a4= Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW,SPF_PASS autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 X-HELO: mail-qa0-f47.google.com X-Received: by 10.229.182.1 with SMTP id ca1mr41423858qcb.28.1407192582128; Mon, 04 Aug 2014 15:49:42 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <53E00E07.2040509@cygwin.com> Date: Mon, 04 Aug 2014 17:49:43 -0500 From: Yaakov Selkowitz User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.6.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: Basic question about cygport References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes On 2014-08-04 14:16, Philip Daniels wrote: > A while ago I asked a question on Stack Overflow about doing a basic > install task with cygport, but got no answers. Too esoteric perhaps. Support is only provided (as best we can) through the mailing lists here on cygwin.com. Advice provided through third-party channels is likely to be erroneous. > I think it should be easy for anyone who knows cygport, it's a basic "copy > some files to a known location" task. In this particular case, I would suggest just using a git snapshot of your forked repository; see git.cygclass in the cygport manual for details. Yaakov -- 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