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From: Mark Bradshaw <bradshaw AT staff DOT crosswalk DOT com>
To: "'cygwin-apps AT cygwin DOT com'" <cygwin-apps AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: RE: whois package
Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2002 19:30:22 -0500
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Actually, hold that thought.  There's been an update, and it's decently
important... :o(

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mark Bradshaw 
> Sent: Thursday, January 10, 2002 7:21 PM
> To: 'cygwin-apps AT cygwin DOT com'
> Subject: FW: whois package
> 
> 
> Robert, I think I'm all ready.  I've made the changes you and Gerrit
> suggested.  Small correction to the Makefile in the source to 
> correct the
> prefix.  Slightly expanded readme to explain the patch and 
> how to apply it.
> Patch and readme moved to a CYGWIN-PATCHES directory.  <whew>
> 
> I'm ready when you are.
> 
> http://www.networksimplicity.com/whois
> 
> Mark
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Robert Collins [mailto:robert DOT collins AT itdomain DOT com DOT au]
> > Sent: Wednesday, January 09, 2002 6:35 AM
> > To: Mark Bradshaw; cygwin-apps AT cygwin DOT com
> > Subject: Re: whois package
> > 
> > 
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Mark Bradshaw" <bradshaw AT staff DOT crosswalk DOT com>
> > 
> > 
> > > Just wanted to drop in a reminder about the whois 
> package.  Could I
> > get an
> > > official/unofficial nanny to check it over, or at least a 
> > note telling
> > me to
> > > shut up til people have more time?
> > 
> > Looks OK Mark. Does it build OOTB? I ask because the source 
> > archive has
> > no CYGWIN_PATCHES directory in it.
> > 
> > If it doesn't build OOTB then the place to put your patch is in
> > CYGWIN_PATCHES/ in the src archive, along with a README about what's
> > needed to recreate the binary package (for folk building custom
> > versions - i.e. with different configure switches.
> > 
> > Once that's answered/corrected, then I'll uplaod for you.
> > 
> > As a side note... you might be interested in utilising one 
> of Chuck's
> > scripts for the packaging process - grab the source tarball 
> for nearly
> > any of his packages, or the src tarball for libxsl (which has 
> > a script I
> > customised from Chucks), and a lot of the mechanics can be automated
> > easily.
> > 
> > Rob
> > 
>