RE: RFC: setup.ini change

["Robert Collins" <robert dot collins at itdomain dot com dot au>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Christopher Faylor [mailto:cgf@redhat.com] 
> Sent: Wednesday, May 01, 2002 2:43 AM

> >Chris, can we get that "external-src: other-pkg-name" thing 
> into upset? 
> >   (or "other-src" or whatever) Reminder:
> 
> It's pretty complicated to add.  If you specify external-src 
> it will potentially have to add test, prev, curr entries for 
> the packages.
> 
> However, IMO, it makes sense for this option to actually be 
> passed into setup.ini so that setup.exe can understand that 
> this is basically a symbolic link rather than a "copy".

Setup doesn't need any changes - the
source: 
tag has all the functionality Chuck needs now. It'll only download the
file once (well, there are some corner cases, but relatively few and far
between).
 
> I don't remember if Robert already indicated which method 
> he'd prefer. Maybe he already has plans to do the right thing 
> when multiple packages refer to the same source tar ball.  I 
> seem to recall that this came up before but I don't remember 
> what the decision was.

I think that the easiest way is to allow setup.hint: to include the
literal source: tag.

As far as setup.ini's lex and yacc rules, any valid path is ok, so there
is no need to consider adding a new tag.

Rob