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Re: [HEADSUP] Let's start a Cygwin 1.7 release area
On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 05:13:33PM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>On Apr 9 18:28, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>> On Apr 9 10:31, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>> > On Wed, Apr 09, 2008 at 06:09:46AM -0700, Brian Dessent wrote:
>> > >Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>> > >>My favorite would be release-2. It has nothing to do with the DLL
>> > >
>> > >Sounds fine to me as well.
>> >
>> > It's ok.
>>
>> Oh, btw., can we really just use symlinks to the top-level dirs?
>> It just occured to me that some package directories contain
>> subdirectories for packages which are maintained by another
>> maintainer. For instance the perl and python subdirs...
>
>I've now created a release-2 area. I used a somewhat intermediary
>approach. The dirs are real dirs, the tar.bz2 files are symlinks
>to the release area, the setup.hint and md5.sum files are copies.
>The cygwin subdir only contains 1.7.0-1 packages.
>
>Chris, could you please set up another upset which creates the
>corresponding setup-2.{bz2,ini} files?
I added setup-2.ini creation to the Makefile which creates setup.ini.
(and commented out the cron entry that you had which was also doing
this)
cgf