httping 1.4.4-1 contains file *.1.gz [Fix included]

Christian Franke Christian.Franke@t-online.de
Wed Mar 2 18:48:00 GMT 2011


[Original post was on cygwin ML]

Christian Franke wrote:
> The httping 1.4.4-1 package contains a file name with asterisk:
>
> $ cygcheck -l httping
> /usr/bin/httping.exe
> /usr/share/doc/Cygwin/httping-1.4.4.README
> /usr/share/doc/httping/license.txt
> /usr/share/doc/httping/readme.txt
> /usr/share/man/man1/httping.1.gz
> /usr/share/man/man1/*.1.gz
>
> http://cygwin.com/packages/httping/httping-1.4.4-1
>    

The packaging script httping-1.4.4-1.sh does not support wildcards in 
the install.lst file:

$ cat httping-1.4.4/CYGWIN-PATCHES/install.lst
*.1 usr/share/man/man1/
httping usr/bin/

This results in:

$ ./httping-1.4.4-1.sh --test install
...
--- Installing with external: CYGWIN-PATCHES/install.lst
...
install -m 755 \
   /usr/src/httping-1.4.4/.build/build/httping.1 \
   /usr/src/httping-1.4.4/.inst/usr/share/man/man1/*.1


Fix: The first line of install.lst can be removed. It is not needed as 
the man page is later overwritten with an alternate one from CYGWIN-PATCHES.

Christian



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