Pending patches for generic build script

Igor Pechtchanski pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu
Sun Feb 15 18:56:00 GMT 2004


On Wed, 11 Feb 2004, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:

> On Wed, 11 Feb 2004, Lapo wrote:
>
> > Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
> > | Lapo, I have two patches from you (one dated 20030830[1], the other
> > | 20040122[2]; with some minor differences even after whitespace cleanup) --
> > | I assume you'd like me to apply the later one?  Should I use the
> > | accompanying message for the ChangeLog?
> >
> > Frankly I don't remember th differences, but when I did the last one I
> > was thinking not of an "upgrade" but as a "full submission" (because the
> > first one was not anwered yet, of course), so I guess the latest one is
> > good.
>
> Ok.  The main difference is that the earlier one adds a sigfile() call to
> the src-package and spkg handling in the main case statement, and the
> later one does this inside the spkg() function.
>
> > I don't remember the accomapnying message either 0=) but if you think it
> > fits as a ChangeLog you can use it of course.
> >
> > Latest one: <http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-apps/2004-01/msg00177.html>
> >
> > Lapo
>
> Yep, that's the one (also in the message you replied to, as footnote [2]).
> It doesn't look like a proper ChangeLog -- I was thinking of constructing
> an entry from it.  If you want to do it instead, that would actually be
> preferable from my standpoint, obviously. :-)  Feel free to send it to me
> privately (see <http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-apps/2004-02/msg00093.html>
> for some of the comments on ChangeLog formatting).
>         Igor

Applied, thanks.
	Igor
P.S. For those interested, here's the actual ChangeLog entry:

> 2004-02-15  Lapo Luchini  <lapo<at>lapo<dot>it>
>
> 	* generic-build-script: Improve extension detection and add default
> 	clause.  Add 'checksig' argument.
> 	(BASEPKG): New variable.
> 	(src_orig_pkg_ext): Remove unneeded variable.
> 	(host,target): Remove unneeded variables (for now).
> 	(spkg): Add code to sign the patch and the script.  Copy upstream
> 	signature, if any.
> 	(sigfile): New function to create signatures.
> 	(checksig): New function to verify signatures.

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