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RE: whois package
- From: Mark Bradshaw <bradshaw at staff dot crosswalk dot com>
- To: "'cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com'" <cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2002 20:00:56 -0500
- Subject: RE: whois package
I'm sorry to keep putting you guys through this, but could someone check
over the new packages. I've updated from 4.5.15 to 4.5.17, which included
an update to the .edu name servers.
http://www.networksimplicity.com/whois
Mark
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mark Bradshaw
> Sent: Thursday, January 10, 2002 7:30 PM
> To: 'cygwin-apps@cygwin.com'
> Subject: RE: whois package
>
>
> Actually, hold that thought. There's been an update, and
> it's decently
> important... :o(
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Mark Bradshaw
> > Sent: Thursday, January 10, 2002 7:21 PM
> > To: 'cygwin-apps@cygwin.com'
> > Subject: FW: whois package
> >
> >
> > Robert, I think I'm all ready. I've made the changes you and Gerrit
> > suggested. Small correction to the Makefile in the source to
> > correct the
> > prefix. Slightly expanded readme to explain the patch and
> > how to apply it.
> > Patch and readme moved to a CYGWIN-PATCHES directory. <whew>
> >
> > I'm ready when you are.
> >
> > http://www.networksimplicity.com/whois
> >
> > Mark
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Robert Collins [mailto:robert.collins@itdomain.com.au]
> > > Sent: Wednesday, January 09, 2002 6:35 AM
> > > To: Mark Bradshaw; cygwin-apps@cygwin.com
> > > Subject: Re: whois package
> > >
> > >
> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: "Mark Bradshaw" <bradshaw@staff.crosswalk.com>
> > >
> > >
> > > > Just wanted to drop in a reminder about the whois
> > package. Could I
> > > get an
> > > > official/unofficial nanny to check it over, or at least a
> > > note telling
> > > me to
> > > > shut up til people have more time?
> > >
> > > Looks OK Mark. Does it build OOTB? I ask because the source
> > > archive has
> > > no CYGWIN_PATCHES directory in it.
> > >
> > > If it doesn't build OOTB then the place to put your patch is in
> > > CYGWIN_PATCHES/ in the src archive, along with a README
> about what's
> > > needed to recreate the binary package (for folk building custom
> > > versions - i.e. with different configure switches.
> > >
> > > Once that's answered/corrected, then I'll uplaod for you.
> > >
> > > As a side note... you might be interested in utilising one
> > of Chuck's
> > > scripts for the packaging process - grab the source tarball
> > for nearly
> > > any of his packages, or the src tarball for libxsl (which has
> > > a script I
> > > customised from Chucks), and a lot of the mechanics can
> be automated
> > > easily.
> > >
> > > Rob
> > >
> >
>