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Re: [ITA] inetutils-1.5-1
On Mar 6 00:30, Charles Wilson wrote:
> Yet another instance of using a custom cygport function. I'm going to
> consider this a WONTFIX in the packaging. The relevant cygport patch is
> attached, and once (if) appropriate support is added to the official
> cygport product, I will adapt inetutils.cygport to use it. Until then...
>
>
>
> Based on my original 01/2007 proposal for various hooks (two "prep" hooks
> and two "install" hooks), Yaakov added the following to cygport-0.3.8-1
> last month:
>
> # src_unpack_hook() is an optional function which can be defined
> # to alter the original source tree and avoid large patches
> # or long DIFF_EXCLUDES, or to apply patches in tarballs
>
> However, of the four hooks I originally proposed, this is the only one
> merged into 0.3.8-1. Of course, even that was a re-write of my original
> proposal. Sigh. [*]
> [*] On the plus side, something similar to my multiple-postinstall patch
> has been merged into CVS HEAD recently. It doesn't allow "foo.sh" to
> represent the postinstall script for the main foo package (it 'only' allows
> "foo.postinstall" and "postinstall.sh" for the main foo package), but
> Yaakov's code is much easier to follow (that 'foo.sh' concession to old
> g-b-s behavior made the code a LOT uglier...I'm not sorry to see it go, and
> am ecstatic to see sufficient support for per-subpackage
> postinstall/preremove scripts in cygport at last)
OTOH, do you know if Yaakov is still around? He didn't reply to any
of my mails related to util-linux for two weeks now(*). We still have
that packaging problem. Is he on vacation?
Corinna
(*) http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-apps/2008-02/msg00131.html
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