cygport: Request a new feature in order to set owner/group names in packaged tarballs.

[Lemures Lemniscati]

On Tue, 04 Aug 2020 19:02:35 +0200, ASSI
> Lemures Lemniscati via Cygwin-apps writes:
> 
> Don't quote email addresses, please.

Sorry, I've changed settings of my mailer not to do so.

> 
> > Nice.
> >
> > Then, how about a commit following yours.
> 
> That's really for Yaakov to say.
> 
> > Now it is suffienct to specify CYGPORT_TAR_EXT as ".tar.zst" in order
> > use zstd. But it needs tar version >= 1.31.
> 
> I've asked Eric Blake quite some time ago about an update of GNU tar, so
> don't hold your breath.
> 
> > And a next one is for making BUILD_REQUIRES a single-line list in
> > *src.hint files.
> 
> … or just don't embed newlines.  Since cygport is bash under the hood
> you can do
> 
> BUILD_REQUIRES+=" whatever"
> 
> instead of wrapping lines.

By squeezing white spaces, we can save some characters in *.cygport
files :). And new maintainers can avoid an issue relating newlines in
BUILD_REQUIRES without knowing it (I was trapped in it once).

Regards,

--
Lem