[ANNOUNCEMENT] cygwin/xfree86 setup.exe packages available for comments and testing

[Charles Wilson]

Robert Collins wrote:

> 
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: Charles Wilson [mailto:cwilson@ece.gatech.edu] 
>>Sent: Saturday, April 20, 2002 12:59 PM
>>
> 
>>Also, setup must do the following (even without new 'views' 
>>and whatnot)
>>
> 
> Setup should already do that, why not make a test setup.ini and see what
> happens :]. It's all data driven and there is no requirement for -src
> packages to follow the same name as the base.

Whaddaya know.  It works.  point setup.exe here:

http://www.neuro.gatech.edu/users/cwilson/cygutils/testing/

There are 3 packages, bob, bobx, and boby.  only bob has a -src package, 
the other two have source: lines that explicitly specify bob's source 
package.

It seems to work perfectly -- with only a single niggle:

if you select the source for more than one of [bob|bobx|boby], then it 
is downloaded only once (good) but is unpacked three times.  This isn't 
a terrible thing, but it is a waste of effort....

If you play around with this, you can clean up by uninstalling the 
"binary" packages, and deleting the file /usr/src/bob.file.src.  (Or, 
you can delete /bob.file, /bobx.file, /boby.file, and 
/usr/src/bob.file.src, and remove the bob, bobx, and boby entries from 
/etc/setup/installed.db)

So, except for the niggle above, if upset were modified to allow the 
external-src: keyword, then multiple-binary-packages from one -src 
package would work!  (and the niggle isn't a show stopper).

--Chuck