Mail Archives: cygwin-apps/2002/04/09/21:22:40
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
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