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Re: x86/ -> ./ symlink
- From: Christopher Faylor <cgf-use-the-mailinglist-please at cygwin dot com>
- To: cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com
- Date: Wed, 3 Jul 2013 15:31:34 -0400
- Subject: Re: x86/ -> ./ symlink
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On Wed, Jul 03, 2013 at 09:06:53PM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>On Jul 3 14:28, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>> What I'm leaning towards doing is creating a new "cache" directory which
>> just contains x86 and x86_64 directories with a setup.ini in each. I'd
>> get rid of the (IMO) stupid mangled site names since I don't think they
>> are really important and just download files directly into x86*/release.
>> setup.exe would only look in the architecture directory that it cared
>> about for setup.ini, ignoring the other architecture.
>
>Why introducing a new "cache" dir? If you drop the mangled site dir,
>you can just store the flattend directory structure below the local
>install dir without introducing another directory level (except of the
>x86/x86_64 subdirs, of course)
It was just to distinguish that directory from other directories in the
download area. I thought that there might be a need to keep those
around for some reason although I guess that x86 and x86_64 would be ok
names to distinguish them from
http%3a%2f%2fmirrors.kernel.org%2fsourceware%2fcygwin%2f
though.
I also wanted to give the directory a name that made it clear what it
does. I was even thinking of suggesting "deleteme". But, I don't
really feel strongly about this.
>> If it's important than we could have setup do the old stupid way of
>> looking up and down in non-"cache" directories for setup.ini but I think
>> I'd like to retire that behavior.
>
>There would be no way anymore to support multiple different installation
>repositories, as with using cygwin and cygwinports in parallel.
AFAIK, the only tenuous thing that keeps cygwin and cygwinports separate
is the list of the mirror name. The cygwinports web page even cautions
that you can't use the same mirror.
The "cache" name could be user-configurable but I think I'd prefer
adding a "release" tag to setup.ini which controlled this, assuming that
Yaakov was ok with that. That would mean that it would be easier to use
normal sourceware mirrors with cygwinports. The cygwinports stuff would
show up in a separate directory automatically.
cgf