From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 2542 invoked by alias); 4 Aug 2014 22:49:55 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 2525 invoked by uid 89); 4 Aug 2014 22:49:54 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW,SPF_PASS autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 X-HELO: mail-qa0-f47.google.com Received: from mail-qa0-f47.google.com (HELO mail-qa0-f47.google.com) (209.85.216.47) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with (AES128-SHA encrypted) ESMTPS; Mon, 04 Aug 2014 22:49:44 +0000 Received: by mail-qa0-f47.google.com with SMTP id i13so129244qae.6 for ; Mon, 04 Aug 2014 15:49:42 -0700 (PDT) X-Received: by 10.229.182.1 with SMTP id ca1mr41423858qcb.28.1407192582128; Mon, 04 Aug 2014 15:49:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.0.100] (S0106000cf16f58b1.wp.shawcable.net. [24.79.212.134]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPSA id c6sm33609367qag.36.2014.08.04.15.49.40 for (version=TLSv1 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA bits=128/128); Mon, 04 Aug 2014 15:49:41 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <53E00E07.2040509@cygwin.com> Date: Mon, 04 Aug 2014 22:49:00 -0000 From: Yaakov Selkowitz User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.6.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Basic question about cygport References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2014-08/txt/msg00070.txt.bz2 On 2014-08-04 14:16, Philip Daniels wrote: > A while ago I asked a question on Stack Overflow about doing a basic > install task with cygport, but got no answers. Too esoteric perhaps. Support is only provided (as best we can) through the mailing lists here on cygwin.com. Advice provided through third-party channels is likely to be erroneous. > I think it should be easy for anyone who knows cygport, it's a basic "copy > some files to a known location" task. In this particular case, I would suggest just using a git snapshot of your forked repository; see git.cygclass in the cygport manual for details. Yaakov -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple