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Re: cygport for simple package addon: skip prep?
Hello, Marco, and thanks for the feedback and help!
On 12/8/2018 3:29 PM, Marco Atzeri wrote:
Am 07.12.2018 um 23:42 schrieb Heavenly Avenger:
I am trying to write a cygport file for an extension to docbook-xsl
called mathml.
In general you should ask this question on the cygwin mailing list.
This one is for discussion between package maintainer, or are
you planning to become one ?
I am not really sure I can dedicate the time to be a maintainer as I
stated in another email, but the ultimate goal with this mathml
extension was to be able to build a package called 'postgis'. If I can
ultimately make it work, I might change my mind and try to become its
maintainer.
I thought it was ok (and was supposed to) have this kind of subject
discussed here regardless of being a package maintainer or not, sorry
for that. I will refrain from posting here until I make up my mind.
The latest version of the DTD file is at
https://docbook.org/xml/mathml/${VERSION}/dbmathml.dtd, and it is not
zipped nor packaged in any way.
The package consists on just a single .DTD file and I can't figure out
how to make cygport "skip" the unpack attempt during "cygport prep". I
might need to just copy the file into what it assumes to be the package
directory, then during compile/install time, just copy over the file to
the correct location, and determine that as the package's contents.
My solution for similar issue is to make a dummy source package with
just a readme inside
src_compile() {
:
}
src_install() {
# copy of the data from ...
ORIG="/cygdrive/d/cyg_pub/devel/tesseract/git"
cd ${D}/usr/share/doc/docbook-xml...
wget https://docbook.org/xml/mathml/${VERSION}/dbmathml.dtd
}
Okay, so I guess the solution would really make that dummy package.
Thanks. I was trying to avoid this as a package with this "workaround"
would likely not be accepted in the official cygwin repo.
I have this debian package as a base to what should be in the package
file: https://packages.debian.org/sid/all/docbook-mathml/filelist
It seems to be a so basic addition that cygport is kind of too complex
for it -- but it would be useful as a way to "remember" installation
steps required on cygwin, if the correct setup instructions are saved
in a cygport file.
Any ideas and directions are welcome. If you know a cygwin package in a
similar format (just installs a file that it downloads in its original,
uncompressed format), that'd be of great help as well.
Thanks in advance!
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So, in conclusion, I'm thankful for the feedback, and will forward any
other question to the cygwin general mailing list.