From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from sa-prd-fep-045.btinternet.com (mailomta27-sa.btinternet.com [213.120.69.33]) by sourceware.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id AEEB73858D35 for ; Wed, 5 Aug 2020 19:34:26 +0000 (GMT) DMARC-Filter: OpenDMARC Filter v1.3.2 sourceware.org AEEB73858D35 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; dmarc=none (p=none dis=none) header.from=dronecode.org.uk Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; spf=none smtp.mailfrom=jon.turney@dronecode.org.uk Received: from sa-prd-rgout-001.btmx-prd.synchronoss.net ([10.2.38.4]) by sa-prd-fep-045.btinternet.com with ESMTP id <20200805193425.EWUI4112.sa-prd-fep-045.btinternet.com@sa-prd-rgout-001.btmx-prd.synchronoss.net>; Wed, 5 Aug 2020 20:34:25 +0100 Authentication-Results: btinternet.com; auth=pass (PLAIN) smtp.auth=jonturney@btinternet.com X-Originating-IP: [31.51.206.146] X-OWM-Source-IP: 31.51.206.146 (GB) X-OWM-Env-Sender: jonturney@btinternet.com X-VadeSecure-score: verdict=clean score=0/300, class=clean X-RazorGate-Vade: gggruggvucftvghtrhhoucdtuddrgeduiedrjeekgddugedvucetufdoteggodetrfdotffvucfrrhhofhhilhgvmecuueftkffvkffujffvgffngfevqffopdfqfgfvnecuuegrihhlohhuthemuceftddunecusecvtfgvtghiphhivghnthhsucdlqddutddtmdenucfjughrpefuvfhfhffkffgfgggjtgfgsehtkeertddtfeejnecuhfhrohhmpeflohhnucfvuhhrnhgvhicuoehjohhnrdhtuhhrnhgvhiesughrohhnvggtohguvgdrohhrghdruhhkqeenucggtffrrghtthgvrhhnpeelieegheeghfevfeevhfdviedugfdvuefhjeehteejffefhfeuudetheeugfffhfenucfkphepfedurdehuddrvddtiedrudegieenucevlhhushhtvghrufhiiigvpedtnecurfgrrhgrmhephhgvlhhopegludelvddrudeikedruddrudduudgnpdhinhgvthepfedurdehuddrvddtiedrudegiedpmhgrihhlfhhrohhmpeeojhhonhdrthhurhhnvgihsegurhhonhgvtghouggvrdhorhhgrdhukhequceuqfffjgepkeeukffvoffkoffgpdhrtghpthhtohepoegthihgfihinhdqrghpphhssegthihgfihinhdrtghomheqpdhrtghpthhtohepoehlvghmuhhrvghsrdhlvghmnhhishgtrghtihesghhmrghilhdrtghomheq X-RazorGate-Vade-Verdict: clean 0 X-RazorGate-Vade-Classification: clean Received: from [192.168.1.111] (31.51.206.146) by sa-prd-rgout-001.btmx-prd.synchronoss.net (5.8.340) (authenticated as jonturney@btinternet.com) id 5ED99EC90A5B43BC; Wed, 5 Aug 2020 20:34:25 +0100 Subject: Re: cygport: Request a new feature in order to set owner/group names in packaged tarballs. To: Lemures Lemniscati , "cygwin-apps@cygwin.com" References: <20200804215404.5C96.50F79699@gmail.com> <87wo2e1h04.fsf@Otto.invalid> <20200805054951.9C8B.50F79699@gmail.com> From: Jon Turney Message-ID: <618ad823-54cf-a742-69c9-6274500b18e5@dronecode.org.uk> Date: Wed, 5 Aug 2020 20:34:24 +0100 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:68.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/68.11.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20200805054951.9C8B.50F79699@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Language: en-GB Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Spam-Status: No, score=-5.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00, FORGED_SPF_HELO, KAM_DMARC_STATUS, KAM_LAZY_DOMAIN_SECURITY, NICE_REPLY_A, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW, RCVD_IN_MSPIKE_H2, SPF_HELO_PASS, SPF_NONE, TXREP autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.2 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.2 (2018-09-13) on server2.sourceware.org X-BeenThere: cygwin-apps@cygwin.com X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: Cygwin package maintainer discussion list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 05 Aug 2020 19:34:29 -0000 On 04/08/2020 21:49, Lemures Lemniscati via Cygwin-apps wrote: > On Tue, 04 Aug 2020 19:02:35 +0200, ASSI >> Lemures Lemniscati via Cygwin-apps writes: >>> 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). Yes, this would be nice. However, I think there is a consistency problem here, as other variables which should only produce a single line in the .hint file (e.g. REQUIRES, etc.) don't get whitespace canonicalized (as least, that's how it seemed to me when I briefly looked at this). Thanks for the patch.