How can I try a newly build package locally?

How can I try a newly build package locally?

[thoni56]

I'm a maintainer of a program that I'd might like to propose for inclusion in
the Cygwin distribution.

We use CMake so there is a packager available, and it's easy to create a
.bz2 package.

Once I've created the package, how can I try it locally? In Linux this can
easily be done with dpkg, but is there a way to use the Cygwin package
installer so that it picks up a local package?

I've read [the package contribution documentation][1] and related pages but
can't find an answer.

/Thomas

  [1]: https://cygwin.com/setup.html



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Re: How can I try a newly build package locally?

[Andrey Repin]

Greetings, thoni56!

> I'm a maintainer of a program that I'd might like to propose for inclusion in
> the Cygwin distribution.

> We use CMake so there is a packager available, and it's easy to create a
> .bz2 package.

> Once I've created the package, how can I try it locally? In Linux this can
> easily be done with dpkg, but is there a way to use the Cygwin package
> installer so that it picks up a local package?

> I've read [the package contribution documentation][1] and related pages but
> can't find an answer.

Just setup local repository (either HTTP or plain directory) and try
installing your pkg.
The directory layout is rather simple and easy to reproduce.


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Sorry for my terrible english...


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Re: How can I try a newly build package locally?

[thoni56]

Hi! Andrey!
> Andrey Repin [via Cygwin] 
> <mailto:ml-node+s1069669n126010h87@n5.nabble.com>
> den 6 april 2016 01:20
> Greetings, thoni56!
>
> > I'm a maintainer of a program that I'd might like to propose for 
> inclusion in
> > the Cygwin distribution.
>
> > We use CMake so there is a packager available, and it's easy to 
> create a
> > .bz2 package.
>
> > Once I've created the package, how can I try it locally? In Linux 
> this can
> > easily be done with dpkg, but is there a way to use the Cygwin package
> > installer so that it picks up a local package?
>
> > I've read [the package contribution documentation][1] and related 
> pages but
> > can't find an answer.
>
> Just setup local repository (either HTTP or plain directory) and try
> installing your pkg.
> The directory layout is rather simple and easy to reproduce.
Repository I can probably understand ;-) but exactly what does "try 
installing your pkg" mean? Do I just drop it in the repository? How is 
the setup.ini generated so it includes my package? Is a local temporary 
dir (that you get when you install Cygwin) like a repository or do I 
need to navigate to a real FTP mirror to investigate? More questions 
than answers...

/Thomas
>
>
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> Andrey Repin
> Wednesday, April 6, 2016 02:11:05
>
> Sorry for my terrible english...
>
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Re: How can I try a newly build package locally?

[Ken Brown]

On 4/5/2016 7:26 PM, thoni56 wrote:
> Repository I can probably understand ;-) but exactly what does "try
> installing your pkg" mean? Do I just drop it in the repository? How is
> the setup.ini generated so it includes my package?

https://cygwin.com/git/?p=cygwin-apps/genini.git

  Is a local temporary
> dir (that you get when you install Cygwin) like a repository

Yes.

Ken


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Re: How can I try a newly build package locally?

[Andrey Repin]

Greetings, Ken Brown!

> On 4/5/2016 7:26 PM, thoni56 wrote:
>> Repository I can probably understand ;-) but exactly what does "try
>> installing your pkg" mean? Do I just drop it in the repository? How is
>> the setup.ini generated so it includes my package?

> https://cygwin.com/git/?p=cygwin-apps/genini.git

Adding to that:

setup.exe --help

>>   Is a local temporary
>> dir (that you get when you install Cygwin) like a repository

> Yes.


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Wednesday, April 6, 2016 08:23:42

Sorry for my terrible english...


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Re: How can I try a newly build package locally?

[Achim Gratz]

thoni56 <thomas <at> junovagen.se> writes:
> We use CMake so there is a packager available, and it's easy to create a
> .bz2 package.

Cygwin packages have moved to .tar.xz for quite a while.  Also, please build
and package with cygport.
 
> Once I've created the package, how can I try it locally? In Linux this can
> easily be done with dpkg, but is there a way to use the Cygwin package
> installer so that it picks up a local package?

You can point setup.exe at a local directory, but it'd be preferrable if you
created a local package repository with genini (you can then use it as an
additional repo during install).


Regards,
Achim.


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Re: How can I try a newly build package locally?

[Adam Dinwoodie]

On Tue, Apr 05, 2016 at 02:58:49PM -0700, thoni56 wrote:
> I'm a maintainer of a program that I'd might like to propose for inclusion in
> the Cygwin distribution.
> 
> We use CMake so there is a packager available, and it's easy to create a
> .bz2 package.
> 
> Once I've created the package, how can I try it locally? In Linux this can
> easily be done with dpkg, but is there a way to use the Cygwin package
> installer so that it picks up a local package?
> 
> I've read [the package contribution documentation][1] and related pages but
> can't find an answer.
> 
> /Thomas
> 
>   [1]: https://cygwin.com/setup.html

Cygwin packages generally use Cygport to define the build process and so
forth.  It's more-or-less the equivalent of rpmbuild for RPM packages,
and similar tools for other distribution systems.  The documentation for
Cygport is at http://cygwinports.github.io/cygport/; if you're using
make in a reasonably standard way, most things should Just Workâ„¢.

In particular, if you're using Cygport, it'll automatically do things
like creating setup.hint files for you.

For testing locally, I find it's simplest to just do `tar -xaC/ -f
<tarball>` on the compiled tarballs that Cygport generates.  That
doesn't test the dependency management or anything that requires
post-install scripts, but it's fine for checking the installation itself
works.

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