How is setup.ini generated these days?

Yaakov (Cygwin/X) yselkowitz@users.sourceforge.net
Sun Apr 17 17:35:00 GMT 2011


On Sat, 2011-04-16 at 21:01 +0200, Jens Schweikhardt wrote:
> I'm trying to make a package server as described on
> http://sourceware.org/cygwin-apps/package-server.html
> 
> I've rsynced the complete "release" tree (skipping *-legacy). However,
> running
> 
>   genini release/* > setup.ini
> 
> with genini 1.13 from
> http://cygwin.com/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/genini/?cvsroot=cygwin-apps)
> produces a lot of errors and warnings and the resulting setup.ini
> is much smaller than the official one that comes with rsyncing
> (300k vs 1300k).

Many packages are in subdirectories of release.  Try this instead:

genini --output=setup.ini `find release/ -name setup.hint | sed 's|/setup\.hint$||g'`


Yaakov



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