Re: [cygport] [PATCH] Add support for VERSIONS

[Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin at cygwin dot com>]

On Aug  4 10:47, Achim Gratz wrote:
> Corinna Vinschen writes:
> > Btw., Yaakov, thanks for the new 0.13.0 version.  The only problem I
> > still have is the duplication of the dist files into the CWD.  Isn't
> > there some switch or setting to disable this behaviour?
> 
> I've just updated my rpm-style fork of cygport and I've implemented it
> there â you need to set NO_TOP_PKG non-null in cygport.conf.  It's the
> first commit on top of upstream cygport master since you'll probably
> don't want the rest of the patch stack.  I've also integrated Dave's
> PKG_VERSION patch (second commit up) if anybody is interested.
> 
> Clone from git://repo.or.cz/cygport/rpm-style.git
> 
> The rest of the branch lets you can omit the .cygport extension
> universally and extends version-less naming to patch files (I think Ken
> had requested that some time ago).  It also keeps all downloads (except
> source VCS, I've not had time yet to look into that) in DISTDIR and uses
> them from there directly without copying to $top.  I'll be rebasing that
> branch on top of cygport master to keep it current.

That sounds interesting, but I'd prefer to get this functionality,
at least partially, into cygport.

Yaakov?  Ping?


Corinna

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