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From: Achim Gratz <Stromeko@nexgo.de>
Subject: cygport/setup questions
Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2012 21:35:59 +0100
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I'm in the process of preparing an update for our aging Cygwin
installation at work.  The basic (unattended) install is now working
even if it needs some more testing.  I will have to patch a few
applications, install many more packages from CPAN and somehow customize
the installation as a last step.  So I guess it makes sense to have a
local package repository in addition to the mirrors.  I am planning to
use cygport for creating the local packages, but I'm having a few
questions:

1. Is there some way to specify CPAN bundles rather than individual
packages in the .cygport file?  I don't mind if I'll get a tar.bz for
each package the bundle pulls in, I just want to limit the number of
packages visible during setup.

2. How should I name a package that I patch locally?  Can I use a
non-numerical RELEASE, I'd like to avoid name clashes between the patched
package and later official releases.  For the patch itself, I just edit
the sources, that cygport is going to build from.  Do I have to
(re-)generate the src.patch before each build or is cygport doing that
by itself?

3. How can I make sure that local customizations are always done after
all "real" package installs?  It seems there is a hidden category
_PostInstallLast that may or may not do that.  Also, I might need to
control the order of post-install scripts, they seem to be run in
alphabetical order, can I rely on that?

4. From the testing results so far, I will always have to do a rebaseall
and perlrebase.  Can I do this from setup.exe (after customization) or
does it have to be a separate process after setup.exe has finished?

Thanks in advance for any answers.


Regards,
Achim.
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