Pending packages status

Christopher Faylor cgf@redhat.com
Fri Oct 4 10:28:00 GMT 2002


On Fri, Oct 04, 2002 at 06:25:34AM -0700, Joshua Daniel Franklin wrote:
>I forgot to mention this earlier, but I also like the idea of the 
>necessary files being in one tar, like this:
>
>http://www.geocities.co.jp/SiliconValley-SanJose/5153/cygwin-package/tmake-1.8-1-package.tgz
>
>Instead of three separate files (.hint, -src.tar.bz2, .tar.bz2). This
>makes it easier to check out a package. Especially the setup.hint files have
>had some CRLF problems. 
>
>Could this be a new standard?

I think that anyone who uploads the files would rather have them in three separate
files.  It's easier to just say "curl -Os http://qwer/wqer.tar.bz2" three times than
to do it once, extract it and copy the result to the correct release directory.

IMO, of course.

cgf



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