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From: "Robert Collins" <robert DOT collins AT itdomain DOT com DOT au>
To: "Charles Wilson" <cwilson AT ece DOT gatech DOT edu>,
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Subject: Re: patches to vendor source trees - discussion
Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2001 17:56:54 +1100
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Not yet sorry Chuck, for some reason malloc () is segfaulting in
ntdll.dll and I'm trying to figure that out as a priority.

Rob
----- Original Message -----
From: "Charles Wilson" <cwilson AT ece DOT gatech DOT edu>
To: "Corinna Vinschen" <cygwin-apps AT cygwin DOT com>
Sent: Wednesday, November 14, 2001 6:31 AM
Subject: Re: patches to vendor source trees - discussion


> Has anybody had a chance to take a look at this stuff yet?  Comments?
>
> Possibly reactions;
> 1) I like style 1 -- let's make this the new src packaging standard
> 1a) [1], but with modifications
> 2) I like style 2 -- let's make this the new src packaging standard
> 2a) [2], but with modifications
> 3) what the **** are you doing?  What's wrong with what we've got?
> 4) Yeah, we need to change something, but both of these examples suck
> 5) [obligatory] why don't we use rpm? dpkg?
> 6) other
>
> --Chuck
>
> Charles Wilson wrote:
>
> > Okay, I put my money where my mouth is.  See
> >
> > http://www.neuro.gatech.edu/users/cwilson/cygutils/packaging/
> >
> > I've implemented two slightly different src packaging schemes: the
one
> > I've been advocating, and a slightly modified version of the scheme
> > Robert likes.
> >
> > ------------------------------------------------------
> > STYLE 1 (Chuck):
> > -src archive contains an inner "pristine" tarball in cygwin/SOURCES/
> > along with a patch in the same directory.  Since setup will
> > automagically unpack -src archives into /usr/src, that means we have
> > "/usr/src/cygwin/SOURCES/".  Also, the -src archive contains a build
> > script in cygwin/SPECS/.
> >
> > So, -src contains 3 files, total.
> >
> > ------------------------------------------------------
> > STYLE 2 (Robert):
> >
> > Since Corinna suggested that any scheme uses the RPM-ish
directories,
> > I've adapted Robert's debian-like scheme to fit that structure
> > (basically, just put the src tarball and the patch in
cygwin/SOURCES,
> > but the README instructs to unpack, patch, and build under
cygwin/BUILD
> > rather than *right there* like debian does).
> >
> > When you unpack the inner (pristine) archive and apply the patch,
you
> > get a "rules" file (shell script, not makefile, in this example) in
> > CYGWIN-PATCHES.  I'm pretending that <srctop>/CYGWIN-PATCHES/ is
like
> > debian's <srctop>/debian/.
> >
> > -src contains 2 files, total.
> > -------------------------------------------------------
> >
> > These differences don't sound like much, but when you get down to
it,
> > it's actually pretty profound.  Since we don't (yet) have an outside
> > tool to handle unpacking the inner archive and applying the patch,
> > Robert's scheme is unwieldy IMO.  This leads to lots of little
> > differences in how you rebuild the -src archive, naming (and dir
> > structure) of the "pristine" inner archive, etc.
> >
> > Until we actually HAVE a dpkg tool (or unless we change setup.exe to
do
> > more than just unpack into /usr/src) I like style 1 better.
> >
> > Anyway, go to the URL, download, check it out.  I'm going to bed.
> >
> > --Chuck
> >
>
>
>