[PATCH cygport] Make src packages which put files under /usr/src/package-version-release/

Ken Brown kbrown@cornell.edu
Mon Apr 28 13:31:00 GMT 2014


On 4/27/2014 10:34 PM, Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote:
> On 2014-04-24 15:42, Jon TURNEY wrote:
>>  From a previous discussion [1] on this subject, it seems to be that
>> if this is
>> desirable, then source packages should be fixed rather than working
>> around
>> this in setup.
>>
>> Attached is a patch to cygport to do exactly that.
>
> The downside is, if you then rebuild the package like that, you end up
> with /usr/src/NAME-VERSION-RELEASE/NAME-VERSION-RELEASE[.ARCH, as of
> today's git master], which seems a bit repetitive to me.  What do you
> (and others) think about making the "topdir" also the "workdir" if the
> former is already of the form NAME-VERSION-RELEASE.ARCH, as per the
> attached patch instead?

I'm used to having workdir below topdir.  Changing this would confuse me 
more than the repetition would.  But I don't feel strongly about it.

Ken



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