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Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2001 13:16:05 -0400
From: Christopher Faylor <cgf AT redhat DOT com>
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Subject: Re: Mingw and w32api package names.
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On Wed, Sep 12, 2001 at 12:34:27PM -0400, Earnie Boyd wrote:
>Christopher Faylor wrote:
>> setup.ini is generated automatically.  There is no way to just add
>> something.  If you are going to be renaming the mingw directory to
>> mingw-runtime then I am not sure how setup.exe will deal with that.
>> 
>> If you are going to be creating a new directory then that means
>> there will be a mingw directory sitting around until we somehow
>> modify setup to deal with the situation of obsoleting a package.
>
>According to Chuck's response the autoscript will create an `@
>mingw-runtime' entry even if the directory is named mingw.

If you create a setup.hint file with a:

curr mingw-runtime-NNNNNN.tar.bz2

it will override the mingw name from the directory.

I don't know how that solves any problems, though.  There will still
be an orphaned 'mingw' on people's systems.

This is functionally equivalent to renaming the directory, I think.

cgf