Problem with mksetupini

[Jon Turney]

On 15/02/2017 14:08, Jon Turney wrote:
> On 15/02/2017 07:51, Sunny Lin wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I encountered a problem and hope someone here can help me through.
>>
>> I need to build a 32-bit Cygwin distribution with customized packages.
>> I have calm package installed.  I am learning to use mksetupini to
>> create a setup.ini file.  I use commands similar to the following but
>> always generate an INI file with only a header, no package information
>> in the file.
>>
>> mksetupini --arch x86 --inifile=setup.ini --releasearea=.
>>
>> I followed instruction in the following link and got the same result.
>> https://cygwin.com/package-server.html
>
> Reading over that, it looks like step 2 is in need of a bit of updating
> and might have led you astray.

I fixed up those instructions a bit.

> The directory you are pointing to as releasearea should contain x86/,
> x86_64/ and noarch/ directories, which should contain a release/
> directory, which should contain the various package directories and
> subdirectories.
>
> If that layout isn't followed, mksetupini won't be able to find the
> packages and thus they won't appear in the output setup.ini

It seems there is a problem with calm where it doesn't handle symlinks, 
as those instructions expect.

I've pushed out an updated calm 20170215-1 package with a fix for that.

Thanks for reporting this problem.


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