Please try new setup exe's

Christopher Faylor cgf-use-the-mailinglist-please@cygwin.com
Wed Jul 31 15:34:00 GMT 2013


On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 08:48:31AM -0500, Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote:
>On 2013-07-15 13:58, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>> The new setup.exe will still understand old setup.ini's, just not the
>> reverse.
>>
>> However, all that I did to upset (for this particular change there were
>> a few more other changes required) was add --release and --arch options
>> to produce the setup.ini with those tags.
>[snip]
>> The intent of release:, as I stated elsewhere is to eventually get
>> rid of the mirror directories created by setup.exe.  They will be
>> replaced with "release" directories like "cygwin" or, e.g.,
>> "cygwinports".
>
>As of last week, Ports uses the new $arch/setup.ini layout with release: 
>cygwinports.  Do you have a patch already to implement the release 
>directories?

Not quite but if you started adding 'release: cygwinports' to your
setup.ini's that would help.

I probably should do this while I have a vague understanding of how
setup now creates mirror directories.

cgf



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