[PATCH cygport] Make src packages which put files under /usr/src/package-version-release/

Yaakov (Cygwin/X) yselkowitz@users.sourceforge.net
Sun May 4 09:10:00 GMT 2014


On 2014-04-27 21:34, Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote:
> On 2014-04-24 15:42, Jon TURNEY wrote:
>>  From a previous discussion [1] on this subject, it seems to be that
>> if this is
>> desirable, then source packages should be fixed rather than working
>> around
>> this in setup.
>>
>> Attached is a patch to cygport to do exactly that.
>
> The downside is, if you then rebuild the package like that, you end up
> with /usr/src/NAME-VERSION-RELEASE/NAME-VERSION-RELEASE[.ARCH, as of
> today's git master], which seems a bit repetitive to me.  What do you
> (and others) think about making the "topdir" also the "workdir" if the
> former is already of the form NAME-VERSION-RELEASE.ARCH, as per the
> attached patch instead?

There didn't seem to be a desire to avoid the repetition, so I dropped 
that part and committed a simpler version of this to master.


Yaakov



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