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:date:from:to:subject:message-id:references :mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding :in-reply-to; q=dns; s=default; b=js0brfw4ZWrcEwnuBT3UeDarBu7cqs lCZr5gHR3UCnNM/p05cYuU31m1kOyQx7A6EofA9Oziw54FtWrF5J1YeSkRNA7MO1 C+g5SqEeZi6XM28mtsHGuKrxZxr6Fr8jXuYhYu6RIo5cYSaQatD/lnQFROaAfUgQ bUn3H61MD60R4= 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:date:from:to:subject:message-id:references :mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding :in-reply-to; s=default; bh=yUQ+kT80er7eNPZP5OmZ8VLt1+w=; b=osdn sQMqPG8mSGG58aSCnGkLHvlhPol/jOm4Y5uYi6mH7rUHi9P+N/lwiT+T9ldBEoap mqDOZxSO6RRfkGokFOsmZaGOzDH7AIisORMshVn6SBf9uklryc+Fhr4uHLkXdO49 /6dQ578wgq5E6e6jiaWRj6qf45EzYoZbrJmCozk= 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=-0.7 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_40,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW,SPF_PASS autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 spammy=tarballs, tarball, installer, bz2 X-HELO: mail-wm0-f54.google.com X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20130820; h=x-gm-message-state:date:from:to:subject:message-id:references :mime-version:content-disposition:content-transfer-encoding :in-reply-to:user-agent; bh=olJ5A/Np4+I1Z0Yd0OJijrlGgkrDSOeW9elSYCsyoyY=; b=emkfrG6pCM3WsqTqX2/cNaj6zqSWtN6Y3dEnT2GLf+SL5ncDwYy33dcvEIP1WRf3HD 1yqmRlr2wcaztY1itACfdx5b/glSIApviKpU3IOrAWBRRdfIdwQ3zhq4JcxIPJ9R1IAn Q8qB4JD7lsS+ae9wXY/m9cXfURFCS5H1SmeiWeORkJZz26SMdvuKWWbioPzNrp3q3ws0 RInLSfZZT3+lA7jHLc48RqmPKLvdtH4A8IbVZIodK/VIIWpWRo2xP63IS34wLMfIPEM7 Dq1AH+a0IhsWDK41rIkadBUxDYP+RYEikB/vlIlPt2VXt1sb1gU0nbHZ/jJcc2eQs3Zh mrDQ== X-Gm-Message-State: AD7BkJK6fGTEV2f22gWxeU/S/8XVFOfhWAYZ2njBhPw9J8UtlnH7+0lJGXS1swAZHhgxLQ== X-Received: by 10.28.125.2 with SMTP id y2mr3673201wmc.90.1460030582550; Thu, 07 Apr 2016 05:03:02 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 7 Apr 2016 13:02:59 +0100 From: Adam Dinwoodie To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: How can I try a newly build package locally? Message-ID: <20160407120259.GC2345@dinwoodie.org> References: <1459893529576-126009 DOT post AT n5 DOT nabble DOT com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <1459893529576-126009.post@n5.nabble.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-IsSubscribed: yes On Tue, Apr 05, 2016 at 02:58:49PM -0700, thoni56 wrote: > I'm a maintainer of a program that I'd might like to propose for inclusion in > the Cygwin distribution. > > We use CMake so there is a packager available, and it's easy to create a > .bz2 package. > > Once I've created the package, how can I try it locally? In Linux this can > easily be done with dpkg, but is there a way to use the Cygwin package > installer so that it picks up a local package? > > I've read [the package contribution documentation][1] and related pages but > can't find an answer. > > /Thomas > > [1]: https://cygwin.com/setup.html Cygwin packages generally use Cygport to define the build process and so forth. It's more-or-less the equivalent of rpmbuild for RPM packages, and similar tools for other distribution systems. The documentation for Cygport is at http://cygwinports.github.io/cygport/; if you're using make in a reasonably standard way, most things should Just Work™. In particular, if you're using Cygport, it'll automatically do things like creating setup.hint files for you. For testing locally, I find it's simplest to just do `tar -xaC/ -f ` on the compiled tarballs that Cygport generates. That doesn't test the dependency management or anything that requires post-install scripts, but it's fine for checking the installation itself works. -- 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