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Re: new site for my ports is up


On Wed, Nov 14, 2001 at 03:44:07PM -0500, Charles Wilson wrote:
>"Gerrit P. Haase" wrote:
>
>> I'm still uploading, at the end there will be all this stuff there:
>
>> cygwin/cygipc:
>> total 83
>> -rwxrwxrwx    1 544         83134 Oct 10 14:45 cygipc-1.10-1.tar.bz2
>> -rwxrwxrwx    1 544           753 Nov 14 18:38 index.html
>> 
>
>cygipc is GPL.  Where's the source?
>
>2nd question: do these packages install into /usr (bad) or into
>/usr/local (good)?  Only official ports -- those distributed by the
>cygwin mirror system and setup -- should live in /usr.

Another question:  Why a separate site?  Why not avoid the confusion and
submit the packages to the main release?

cgf

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