RE: [ITP] aide 0.17.3

["Jason Pyeron" <jpyeron@pdinc.us>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Brian Inglis
> Sent: Friday, November 12, 2021 11:50 AM
> 
> On 2021-11-12 05:48, Jason Pyeron wrote:
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: Brian Inglis
> >> Sent: Wednesday, November 10, 2021 11:25 AM
> >>
> >> On 2021-11-10 05:33, Jason Pyeron wrote:
> >>> On Sunday, October 31, 2021 10:37 AM, Jason Pyeron wrote:
> >>>> On Sunday, October 31, 2021 8:48 AM, Jon Turney wrote:
> >>>>> On 29/09/2021 15:27, Jason Pyeron wrote:
> >>>>>> On Friday, July 30, 2021 10:34 AM, Jason Pyeron wrote:
> >>>>>>> AIDE - Advanced Intrusion Detection Environment
> >>>>>>> https://github.com/aide/aide/
> >>>>>>> It is a GPL v2 tool for monitoring file system changes.
> >>>>>>> There was no (mature?) Windows open source solution until AIDE was built and tested for
> >>>>>>> Cygwin. This fills a long standing gap in needs.
> >>>>>>> Closed source alternative - Trip Wire.
> > ...
> >>>>>> Upstream has expressed willingness to review/track patches, if
> >>>>>> needed.
> >>
> >> Good idea to submit patches upstream, as it reduces the number of
> >> patches you have to maintain and rebase, and they may have a better idea
> >> of how to achieve the same goal with more generality having their
> >> knowledge of the package source and build.
> >>
> > ...
> >>>> The attached (with required patch) has been in testing on multiple
> >>>> windows servers since late July. They can also be reviewed on
> >>>> github [2].
> >> Using github is an issue for some: gitlab, bitbucket, etc. may or may
> >> not be.
> >>
> >> That is why it is a good idea to checkout your repo on a playground
> >> branch, then force push your repo to:
> >>
> >> 	ssh://cygwin@cygwin.com/git/cygwin-packages/playground
> >>
> >> and post the jobs.cgi, run, and log links.
> >
> > Run 3524: https://cygwin.com/cgi-bin2/jobs.cgi?id=3524
> >
> > x86, x86_64 build logs: https://github.com/cygwin/scallywag/actions/runs/1453082339
> 
> To suppress source patch generation at the end of source packaging:
> 
> 	>>> Creating source patches
> 	 include/util.h |    1 +
> 	 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
> 
> need to add near the end of your definitions:
> 
> 	DIFF_EXCLUDES=include/util.h

Not sure I understand this, that file is explicitly patched to build. See:

commit e4818534fa1165ba4dc066ff90b78d0885a61fac
Author: Jason Pyeron <jpyeron@pdinc.us>
Date:   Tue Aug 3 11:10:17 2021 -0400

    cygport file and patch to build Aide 0.17.3 on Cygwin

A       aide-0.17.3-1.cygwin.patch


-Jason