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Subject: Re: Making a package obsolete
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From: Jon Turney <jon DOT turney AT dronecode DOT org DOT uk>
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Date: Mon, 15 May 2017 16:56:28 +0100
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On 15/05/2017 15:30, Ken Brown wrote:
> On 5/14/2017 1:38 PM, Jon Turney wrote:
>> On 13/05/2017 20:44, Ken Brown wrote:
>>> On 5/13/2017 7:12 AM, Jon Turney wrote:
>>>> On 12/05/2017 22:02, Ken Brown wrote:
>>>>> I have a package that is going to become obsolete, but its contents
>>>>> will
>>>>> be distributed among several other packages.  So I can't handle
>>>>> this by
>>>>> defining OBSOLETES in any one .cygport file.  Is there a standard
>>>>> way to
>>>>> deal with this using cygport, or should I just create the necessary
>>>>> tarballs and .hint file manually?
>>>>
>>>> I think the best way to do that is to bump your package revision,
>>>> change
>>>> it's category to _obsolete, make it's contents empty, and make it
>>>> depend
>>>> on the packages which are replacing it.
>>>
>>> Yes, that was my first thought.  But there's no longer a source file for
>>> the obsolete package[1], and cygport complains that SRC_URI must be
>>> defined.  Maybe cygport should be patched to allow an empty SRC_URI when
>>> the category is _obsolete.  Or do you see another way around this?
>>
>> I would think you can use the same SRC_URI as previously, but set
>> PKG_CONTENTS="" and PKG_IGNORE="*" ?
>
> You're right, I can do something like that.  I was being overly pedantic
> in wanting SRC_URI to be "accurate".  Sorry for the noise.

You can always make an empty tarball called 
texlive-collection-htmlxml-20170515.tar.xz or whatever, and use that for 
SRC_URI.


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