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Date: Tue, 09 Apr 2002 21:22:30 -0400
From: Charles Wilson <cwilson AT ece DOT gatech DOT edu>
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To: Robert Collins <robert DOT collins AT itdomain DOT com DOT au>
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Subject: Re: info: single install xfree86 + minimal cygwin?
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Robert Collins wrote:


>>They were simple changes to the script I wrote to repackage the 
>>distributed archives. I'll try to write proper setup.hint 
>>files for all 
>>the packages.
>>
> 
> Cool.


I'm unclear about how the -src packages (are/should be) handled, since 
there are a great many "binary" packages in XFree, but only a few 
original "source" packages.  In the past, when multiple "binary" 
packages are generated from a single "source" package, we've done the 
following:

ncurses-5.2-?-src.tar.bz2
   contains the actual src dist for ncurses/libncurses, with
   cygwin patches, build scripts, etc

However, building this -src generates two "binary" packages:
   ncurses-5.2-?.tar.bz2
   libncurses6-5.2-?.tar.bz2

So, we create an empty
   libncurses6-5.2-?-src.tar.bz2
that contains only a single README that says "go look over there, in 
ncurses-5.2-?-src.tar.bz2".

Now, this works, and upset/setup are happy (every binary package has a 
"src" package) but it is hackish, ugly, and a pain to maintain.  Is 
there a better solution?  (Or can we discard the psuedo-src packages 
without repurcussion?  Won't upset be upset by the "bin without src" 
problem?)

--Chuck