From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 3784 invoked by alias); 17 Jul 2012 18:39:51 -0000 Received: (qmail 3773 invoked by uid 22791); 17 Jul 2012 18:39:50 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,RCVD_IN_HOSTKARMA_YE X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from mho-02-ewr.mailhop.org (HELO mho-02-ewr.mailhop.org) (204.13.248.72) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Tue, 17 Jul 2012 18:39:32 +0000 Received: from pool-173-76-45-230.bstnma.fios.verizon.net ([173.76.45.230] helo=cgf.cx) by mho-02-ewr.mailhop.org with esmtpa (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1SrCgF-0002FN-8i for cygwin-apps@cygwin.com; Tue, 17 Jul 2012 18:39:31 +0000 Received: from localhost (ednor.casa.cgf.cx [192.168.187.5]) by cgf.cx (Postfix) with ESMTP id CA2954296B4 for ; Tue, 17 Jul 2012 14:39:30 -0400 (EDT) X-Mail-Handler: Dyn Standard SMTP by Dyn X-Report-Abuse-To: abuse@dyndns.com (see http://www.dyndns.com/services/sendlabs/outbound_abuse.html for abuse reporting information) X-MHO-User: U2FsdGVkX1+D28PZu+08A1Zef15pbav4 Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2012 18:39:00 -0000 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin-apps@cygwin.com Subject: Re: [RFC] cygport: split debuginfo packages Message-ID: <20120717183930.GB315@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> Reply-To: cygwin-apps@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin-apps@cygwin.com References: <4FE2BE24.4050508@users.sourceforge.net> <87zk6yw7y7.fsf@Rainer.invalid> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <87zk6yw7y7.fsf@Rainer.invalid> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) 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 X-SW-Source: 2012-07/txt/msg00056.txt.bz2 On Tue, Jul 17, 2012 at 08:36:48PM +0200, Achim Gratz wrote: >Yaakov (Cygwin/X) writes: >> Attached is a first draft of a patch to support split debuginfo >> packages automatically in cygport. I'm looking for comments and >> suggestions, particularly on the following: > >The automatic generation of the packages works great, thank you. > >Looking at the resulting proliferation of packages I'm beginning to >think however that the debuginfo packages should perhaps be treated like >the source packages (including "foreign" debuginfo) and the associated >handling in genini/upset/setup just like source packages, too. > >So if there's a source package package-version-src.tar.bz2, then the >debuginfo package would be called package-version-debuginfo.tar.bz2 and >it would be selected from libpackage if that had package as a foreign >source. I hope this description makes sense... Maybe the .debuginfo files should be in a "Debug" category. cgf