setup

Corinna Vinschen corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com
Mon Jun 8 12:56:00 GMT 2015


On Jun  3 19:11, Achim Gratz wrote:
> Yaakov Selkowitz writes:
> > Anyone looking at the sources would be tainted thereby.  Because we are
> > concerned about the licensing of upset, AFAICS we are going to have to
> > clean-room reverse-engineer this.
> 
> So what exactly does upset that genini doesn't when it comes to
> generating setup.ini and what other functions does it do in the
> maintenance of the download area (which I assume is the part where it
> gets hairy)?

Basically upset generates setup.ini and setup.bz2 files and a makefile
signs the files.  But additionally upset also creates the data for the
package search and it does the uploading from the package staging area.


Corinna

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