From: Lemures Lemniscati <lemures.lemniscati@gmail.com>
To: cygwin-apps@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: cygport: Request a new feature in order to set owner/group names in packaged tarballs.
Date: Wed, 05 Aug 2020 05:49:54 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200805054951.9C8B.50F79699@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87wo2e1h04.fsf@Otto.invalid>
On Tue, 04 Aug 2020 19:02:35 +0200, ASSI
> Lemures Lemniscati via Cygwin-apps writes:
>
> Don't quote email addresses, please.
Sorry, I've changed settings of my mailer not to do so.
>
> > Nice.
> >
> > Then, how about a commit following yours.
>
> That's really for Yaakov to say.
>
> > Now it is suffienct to specify CYGPORT_TAR_EXT as ".tar.zst" in order
> > use zstd. But it needs tar version >= 1.31.
>
> I've asked Eric Blake quite some time ago about an update of GNU tar, so
> don't hold your breath.
>
> > And a next one is for making BUILD_REQUIRES a single-line list in
> > *src.hint files.
>
> … or just don't embed newlines. Since cygport is bash under the hood
> you can do
>
> BUILD_REQUIRES+=" whatever"
>
> instead of wrapping lines.
By squeezing white spaces, we can save some characters in *.cygport
files :). And new maintainers can avoid an issue relating newlines in
BUILD_REQUIRES without knowing it (I was trapped in it once).
Regards,
--
Lem
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[not found] ` <87d047r0ro.fsf@Rainer.invalid>
2020-08-04 12:54 ` Lemures Lemniscati
2020-08-04 13:46 ` Thomas Wolff
2020-08-04 20:34 ` Lemures Lemniscati
2020-08-05 18:31 ` ASSI
2020-08-05 21:21 ` Lemures Lemniscati
2020-08-06 18:25 ` ASSI
2020-08-07 7:45 ` Thomas Wolff
2020-08-07 14:33 ` Lemures Lemniscati
2020-08-07 19:09 ` ASSI
2020-08-08 0:43 ` Lemures Lemniscati
2020-08-08 4:32 ` ASSI
2020-08-08 11:14 ` Lemures Lemniscati
2020-08-10 3:42 ` Lemures Lemniscati
2020-08-10 19:51 ` Achim Gratz
2020-08-10 21:45 ` Lemures Lemniscati
2020-08-04 17:02 ` ASSI
2020-08-04 20:49 ` Lemures Lemniscati [this message]
2020-08-05 19:34 ` Jon Turney
2020-08-05 21:50 ` Lemures Lemniscati
2020-08-06 17:13 ` Jon Turney
2020-08-07 14:43 ` Lemures Lemniscati
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