SUN RPC package

Robb, Sam sam.robb@timesys.com
Sat Jan 18 20:43:00 GMT 2003


> 1) As Earnie Boyd has pointed the directory name should be in 
> the form 
> packagename-version-cygwinrelease i.e. sunrpc-4.0-1.

Fixed.

> 2) All the files in the source package seem to have dos style line 
> endings.
...
> Also note that it is considered to be a good practice to keep the 
> setup.hint file with unix style line endings.

Fixed; unix-style endings should be the norm.
 
> 3) The patch - it should be extracted in /usr/src/ note in 
> /usr/src/sunrpc-4.0-1/CYGWIN-PATCHES . Although you can do it 
> this way, 
> this method is considered depricated.

Fixed.
 
> It is not named properly - should follow the same rules ad the source 
> directory name.

Fixed.
 
> It is not created properly - should be created like this:
> 
>   diff -Nrup vendor-src-dir patched-src-dir > foo-vendor-release.patch

...and fixed. :-)

Latest version available, as always, at:

<http://www.oneparticularharbor.net/cygwin/sunrpc/sunrpc-4.0-1.tar.bz2>
<http://www.oneparticularharbor.net/cygwin/sunrpc/sunrpc-4.0-1-src.tar.bz2>
<http://www.oneparticularharbor.net/cygwin/sunrpc/setup.hint>

-Samrobb



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