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Re: cygport tweaks


On Jul  4 14:53, Eric Blake wrote:
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> I just switched diffstat from g-b-s to cygport, and have to say I was
> pretty impressed.  In the process, I discovered that cygport doesn't
> recognize .asc as a valid file suffix for a gpg signature.  And if there
> are no source patches, it would be nicer to not distribute ${P}.src.patch
> at all rather than distributing a 0-byte file.
> 
> Also, the cygport README states that cygport is still unsupported on the
> main cygwin mailing list; should that be updated now that cygport is an
> official package?

And while we're at it, the localstatedir should be /var per
http://cygwin.com/setup.html, not /var/lib as is the default
in cygport.


Corinna

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