From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 30186 invoked by alias); 18 Sep 2016 15:14:22 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-apps-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk Sender: cygwin-apps-owner@cygwin.com List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Mail-Followup-To: cygwin-apps@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 30162 invoked by uid 89); 18 Sep 2016 15:14:19 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-2.5 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 spammy=Hx-spam-relays-external:ESMTPA X-HELO: out2-smtp.messagingengine.com Received: from out2-smtp.messagingengine.com (HELO out2-smtp.messagingengine.com) (66.111.4.26) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Sun, 18 Sep 2016 15:14:08 +0000 Received: from compute5.internal (compute5.nyi.internal [10.202.2.45]) by mailout.nyi.internal (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5BB36202C9 for ; Sun, 18 Sep 2016 11:14:06 -0400 (EDT) Received: from frontend1 ([10.202.2.160]) by compute5.internal (MEProxy); Sun, 18 Sep 2016 11:14:06 -0400 Received: from [192.168.1.102] (host86-141-129-68.range86-141.btcentralplus.com [86.141.129.68]) by mail.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTPA id E5828F29CF for ; Sun, 18 Sep 2016 11:14:05 -0400 (EDT) Subject: Re: per-version hints proposal To: cygwin-apps@cygwin.com References: <8b4723b2-1bd5-3604-1deb-cfd0a1c7b9d9@dronecode.org.uk> <87intvaw8c.fsf@Rainer.invalid> <7be1e9ea-651f-877b-eef4-7754ce05e588@gmail.com> From: Jon Turney Message-ID: <12929b59-b42b-beef-b4e9-f10cd828030f@dronecode.org.uk> Date: Sun, 18 Sep 2016 15:14:00 -0000 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.3.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <7be1e9ea-651f-877b-eef4-7754ce05e588@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2016-09/txt/msg00036.txt.bz2 On 18/09/2016 06:17, Marco Atzeri wrote: > On 17/09/2016 08:14, Achim Gratz wrote: >> Jon Turney writes: >>> Currently, the setup.hint file is shared between all versions. >>> >>> This means that manual intervention (by the package maintainer, or on >>> sourceware) is needed when versions have different dependencies. >>> >>> To automate this problem out of existence, I suggest replacing the >>> setup.hint file in an upload with a package-version-release.hint file. >> >> Since this is now moving into reality, the documentation in >> >> https://cygwin.com/setup.html >> >> has become out-of-date. >> >> >> Regards, >> Achim. >> > > are we not yet missing an updated cygport release ? > Or a test one Yes, this is only usable by people running cygport from git, currently. After I wrote the documentation update, I found it needs to describe the backwards-compatible use of setup.hint. Given that, there didn't seem to be any harm in pushing the documentation update now. Achim, I notice the section about postinstall scripts doesn't mention permanent postinsall scripts at all. Could you possibly provide a couple of paragraphs?