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Re: About the spec of cygwin's setup.ini file.
- From: Eric Blake <ebb9 at byu dot net>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com, hongyi dot zhao at gmail dot com
- Date: Tue, 23 Dec 2008 06:03:26 -0700
- Subject: Re: About the spec of cygwin's setup.ini file.
- References: <cda1l41ijuiottqselvfab1buh21n8le37@4ax.com>
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According to Hongyi Zhao on 12/23/2008 2:18 AM:
>
> 1- The above two entries in the setup.ini actually point to the same
> source file: GConf2-2.14.0-2-src.tar.bz2, while they have different
> other filelds, such as: install.
That's because there are a number of packages where the same source
tarball produces multiple binary tarballs.
> Who can give me some hints on the
> spec of cygwin's setup.ini file?
The source code of setup.exe is freely available:
http://sourceware.org/cygwin-apps/setup.html
That provides the definitive reference for how it is parsed. But there is
also the genini reference page,
http://sources.redhat.com/cygwin-apps/package-server.html
>
> 2- Furthermore, if I want make a local repository based on the
> setup.ini file, where should I put these pakcages? More specifically,
> should I use the field value of _install:_ or the field value of
> _source:_ to construct the local directory tree for my cygwin's
> repository?
Depends on whether you want to install the binaries or the sources used to
generate those binaries. But why not use setup.exe, and let it do the
work for you?
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Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well!
Eric Blake ebb9@byu.net
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