Mail Archives: cygwin-apps/2002/05/01/11:29:49
On Wed, May 01, 2002 at 11:51:10PM +1000, Robert Collins wrote:
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Christopher Faylor [mailto:cgf AT redhat DOT com]
>> Sent: Wednesday, May 01, 2002 2:43 AM
>
>> >Chris, can we get that "external-src: other-pkg-name" thing
>> into upset?
>> > (or "other-src" or whatever) Reminder:
>>
>> It's pretty complicated to add. If you specify external-src
>> it will potentially have to add test, prev, curr entries for
>> the packages.
>>
>> However, IMO, it makes sense for this option to actually be
>> passed into setup.ini so that setup.exe can understand that
>> this is basically a symbolic link rather than a "copy".
>
>Setup doesn't need any changes - the
>source:
>tag has all the functionality Chuck needs now. It'll only download the
>file once (well, there are some corner cases, but relatively few and far
>between).
I don't think you read Chuck's proposal. He wants something which
would automatically track version numbers in the referenced *package*.
Saying:
external-source: ../tiff-1.3.2-1-src.tar.bz2
wasn't what he was going for.
He wanted to be able to say:
external-source: tiff
and have something (either setup or upset) figure out that the source for
libtiff-1.3.2-1.tar.bz2 is tiff-1.3.2-1-src.tar.bz2.
I thought that maybe the functionality for this belonged in setup.exe
rather than in upset, i.e., I just pass the option through as is.
cgf
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