From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 24966 invoked by alias); 30 May 2019 14:08:35 -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 24696 invoked by uid 89); 30 May 2019 14:08:35 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-2.7 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 spammy=HTo:U*cygwin-apps, calm, cygwincom, UD:cygwin.com X-HELO: rgout0806.bt.lon5.cpcloud.co.uk Received: from rgout0806.bt.lon5.cpcloud.co.uk (HELO rgout0806.bt.lon5.cpcloud.co.uk) (65.20.0.153) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Thu, 30 May 2019 14:08:34 +0000 X-OWM-Source-IP: 86.184.210.21 (GB) X-OWM-Env-Sender: jonturney@btinternet.com X-VadeSecure-score: verdict=clean score=0/300, class=clean X-SNCR-VADESECURE: CLEAN Received: from [192.168.1.102] (86.184.210.21) by rgout08.bt.lon5.cpcloud.co.uk (9.0.019.26-1) (authenticated as jonturney@btinternet.com) id 5BC47A8714C0E38C for cygwin-apps@cygwin.com; Thu, 30 May 2019 15:08:31 +0100 Subject: Re: Planned setup.ini changes for early 2018 To: "cygwin-apps@cygwin.com" References: <5e585f56-b4b1-753d-7ca8-0f7894194fa9@dronecode.org.uk> From: Jon Turney Message-ID: Date: Thu, 30 May 2019 14:08:00 -0000 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:60.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/60.7.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2019-05/txt/msg00008.txt.bz2 On 01/03/2018 16:00, Jon Turney wrote: > On 10/01/2018 22:44, Jon Turney wrote: >> >> * Migrate from setup.hint to pvr.hint in release area >> >> I also plan to migrate all remaining setup.hints to pvr.hints in the >> release area (setup.hint in uploads have been automatically migrated >> since [5]). >> >> This should have no effect on the generated setup.ini, but enables >> some complexity (some of which isn't implemented properly, see [6]) to >> be removed from calm. > > I've done this migration today. > > At some point in the future calm/mksetupini will stop supporting > setup.hints in the release area. (calm will still accept and migrate > uploads containing a setup.hint, as per [1]) I recently deployed this change, so in the unlikely event that: - you have a private package repository, AND - it contains some packages which are old enough to have a setup.hint You'll need to successfully run 'calm-tool hint-migrate' on that repository before you can use calm >= 20190530. > So, for the record, if you have an up-to-date calm installed, this > migration can be done with 'calm-tool hint-migrate [--releasearea=...]' > > [1] https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-apps/2017-11/msg00044.html