Mail Archives: cygwin-apps/2002/04/09/22:42:29
Oooohhhh, NOW I get it. I didn't understand that "verpat:" was a new
field in setup.hint, PARSED by upset. It's perfectly clear in hindsight.
Nevermind my earlier comments. Time for some sleep.
--Chuck
Christopher Faylor wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 09, 2002 at 10:24:18PM -0400, Charles Wilson wrote:
>
>>>Btw, I'm adding a new feature to upset:
>>>
>>>verpat: (.*-\d+dpi)(.*)(\.tar.bz2)
>>> ^^^^^^^^^^ ^^ ^^^^^^^^^
>>> $1 $2 $3
>>>
>>>$1 = prefix
>>>$2 = version
>>>$3 = suffix
>>>
>>>That won't help setup.ini-less installs much but, er...
>>>
>>I don't grok regex's very well, but have we dropped support for tar.gz?
>>
>
> .tar.gz is deprecated but that's kinda besides the point. If you wanted
> to use .tar.gz, you'd change the above to use .tar.gz.
>
> This is just a field for setup.hint so that we don't have to tell
> people to rename their scripts when there is a clear precedent for
> some version numbering that can't be automatically grokked.
>
> Like everything in setup.hint it should be used only when absolutely
> necessary.
>
>
>>Also, how many special cases are we going to have? I understand
>>wanting to keep xfree-fonts-75dpi-VER-REL instead of
>>
>>xfree-fonts_75dpi-VER-REL or
>>xfree-fonts-dpi75-VER-REL
>>
>>but are we venturing down a path we don't really want to follow?
>>
>
> I was just using this as an (incorrect, actually) example. If someone
> is comfortable with an underscore, that's fine. This would probably be
> more useful for something like contrib/tei-xml/tei-xml-p4-1-src.tar.bz2 .
>
> cgf
>
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