From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com>
To: cygwin-apps@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: per-version hints proposal
Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2016 14:28:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160621142839.GC12441@calimero.vinschen.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2bfdb839-05a8-4d07-7ae1-a8794615a5bc@gmail.com>
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On Jun 21 15:49, Marco Atzeri wrote:
>
> On 21/06/2016 14:03, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> > On Jun 20 16:28, Jon Turney wrote:
> > >
> > > 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.
> > >
> > > This will be basically identical to the existing setup.hint, with the
> > > advantage that it can't be trampled on by a future version, with the
> > > following changes:
> > >
>
> fine for me.
>
>
> > Ideally we wouldn't need something like "prev" at all since the version
> > number itself is sufficient to specify what's curr and what's old.
> >
> > As for test, IMHO it would make sense to specify "this is a test
> > release" right in the cygport file. This in turn could create a
> > per-version hint with a test marker which is evaluated by calm
> > accordingly. For instance, the name of the file could take over this
> > role. Or even better, the package version number itself.
> >
> > This would have an additional benefit: We couldn't just move a package
> > from test to curr, it would have to be explicitely rebuilt as non-test
> > release.
>
> not a huge fan of this.
> The last time we made the perl transition we put a lot of package in
> test as temporary solution. Rebuild all just to change a label
> seems a waste of time.
Not a huge fan of what part? I think in general it makes sense to
keep the "test" info in the ${version}.hint file. If a simple
change to this file moves ${version} to non-test, ok with me.
Corinna
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-06-21 14:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-06-20 15:28 Jon Turney
2016-06-21 12:03 ` Corinna Vinschen
2016-06-21 13:49 ` Marco Atzeri
2016-06-21 14:28 ` Corinna Vinschen [this message]
2016-06-21 15:32 ` Marco Atzeri
2016-06-21 14:09 ` Eric Blake
2016-06-21 14:27 ` Corinna Vinschen
2016-06-21 18:04 ` Achim Gratz
2016-06-21 18:27 ` Jon Turney
2016-08-30 12:24 ` Jon Turney
2016-08-31 19:14 ` Achim Gratz
2016-09-01 17:15 ` Jon Turney
2016-12-08 19:30 ` Jon Turney
2016-12-09 10:46 ` Corinna Vinschen
2016-12-09 11:10 ` Corinna Vinschen
2016-12-12 13:29 ` Jon Turney
2016-12-12 13:29 ` Jon Turney
2017-04-08 17:00 ` Achim Gratz
2017-04-12 20:51 ` Ken Brown
2017-04-13 6:24 ` Achim Gratz
2016-09-17 6:15 ` Achim Gratz
2016-09-18 5:17 ` Marco Atzeri
2016-09-18 15:14 ` Jon Turney
2016-09-18 16:12 ` Achim Gratz
2016-09-18 16:29 ` Achim Gratz
2016-09-19 15:37 ` Ken Brown
2016-09-19 18:24 ` Achim Gratz
2016-09-19 22:23 ` Jon Turney
2016-09-18 16:40 ` Ken Brown
2016-09-18 16:53 ` Marco Atzeri
2016-09-18 17:16 ` Achim Gratz
2016-09-18 18:08 ` Marco Atzeri
2016-09-22 13:44 ` Eric Blake
2016-12-10 22:42 ` How to override previous version? David Rothenberger
2016-12-11 0:03 ` Jon Turney
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