Questions on package adoption conventions

Corinna Vinschen corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com
Mon Nov 2 09:29:00 GMT 2015


On Oct 31 21:15, Mark Geisert wrote:
> On Sat, 31 Oct 2015, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> >On Oct 31 00:18, Jon Turney wrote:
> >>On 30/10/2015 23:25, Mark Geisert wrote:
> >>>I was confused by the SRC_URI= line in cygutils.cygport.  Does that
> >>>merely indicate where this package came from at the time the .cygport
> >>>file was written, or does it denote a commitment by the maintainer to
> >>>continue hosting the package from that URI?  If the latter, that's why I
> >>>was asking about access methods.  Is SRC_URI required?
> >>
> >>SRC_URI is the URI for the upstream source.
> >>
> >>cygport's fetch (aka download) subcommand will fetch the upstream source
> >>from the specified SRC_URI
> >>
> >>cygutils is somewhat a special case as cygwin is the upstream :)
> >>
> >>The sources are in CVS at pserver:anoncvs@sourceware.org:/cvs/cygwin-apps,
> >>but the tarballs seem to be hosted on fruitbat.org at the moment.
> >>
> >>I think the best thing to do is to ask for that CVS to be migrated to git,
> >
> >Done:
> >
> > git clone git://sourceware.org/git/cygwin-cygutils.git
> >
> > Gitweb: https://sourceware.org/git/?p=cygwin-cygutils.git
> >
> >Mark, if you're going to maintain the project, you probably want to
> >make changes to the git repo.  For that you need ssh access to
> >sourceware.org AKA cygwin.com.  Pleae use the form at
> >
> > https://sourceware.org/cgi-bin/pdw/ps_form.cgi
> >
> >to request SSH access to sware.  Project is "cygwin-apps", Use my
> >email address for the approver field.
> >
> >>then the cygport can be written to fetch the source directly from a
> >>specified tag in git, since this will avoid the need for you to make
> >>tarballs and work out where to host them.
> >
> >E.g.
> >
I forgot one line here:

> > GIT_URI="git://cygwin.com/git/newlib-cygwin.git"
> > GIT_TAG="..."
    inherit git

> This does seems like the best way to go, for several reasons.  I've sent in
> the SSH access request form.
> Thanks much!

Approved.  You should get a mail from sware overseers shorty.


Corinna

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Corinna Vinschen                  Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to
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