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Re: new packages
- To: cygwin-developers at cygwin dot com
- Subject: Re: new packages
- From: Christopher Faylor <cgf at redhat dot com>
- Date: Thu, 1 Nov 2001 12:21:33 -0500
- References: <EA18B9FA0FE4194AA2B4CDB91F73C0EF7A47@itdomain002.itdomain.net.au>
- Reply-To: cygwin-developers at cygwin dot com
On Thu, Nov 01, 2001 at 04:08:32PM +1100, Robert Collins wrote:
>I'd like to add 2 new 'packages' to the mirror package hierarchy.
>
>They don't need to appear in setup.ini, but I suspect that the package
>scanner will add them automatically :p.
The setup.ini scanner only recognizes .ini, .tar.gz, and .tar.bz2 files.
>If they are marked as experimental will that suffice for preventing user
>confusion?
>(Oh, and what is the tag for experimental again?).
>
>The files are:
>latest/setup/setup.exe and
>latest/setup/copyandspawn.exe
>
>The reason to have them in the mirror hierarchy is that they can be
>downloaded from mirrors, not just cygwin.com, and they should be in sync
>with the version of setup.ini.
Feel free to put this in the hierarchy but you can put it almost anywhere
under /sourceware/ftp/anonftp/pub/cygwin and it will be mirrored.
cgf