man page of CYGPORT(1) has an old content. should be updated.

man page of CYGPORT(1) has an old content. should be updated.

[dodo .]

Hello,

I report one thing about manpage for cygport.

Man page CYGPORT(1) seems to show old content about 'all' COMMAND.
According to manpage CYGPORT(1),  'all' COMMMAND means 'run all of the
above, excluding finish.'
However 'download' COMMAND is excepted on actual performing.
Thus, source patching with $(PATCH_URI} does not perform.

Latest README of cygport describes correct information.
https://github.com/cygwinports/cygport/blob/master/README
According to it, fetch(download) COMMAND is not included in 'all'.

I think manpage CYGPORT(1) should be updated.

Currently I am using Cygwin as follows.

$ uname -a
CYGWIN_NT-6.1-WOW turtle0 2.8.0(0.309/5/3) 2017-04-01 20:42 i686 Cygwin

$ cygport --version
cygport 0.24.0
...

Regard.

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Re: man page of CYGPORT(1) has an old content. should be updated.

[Brian Inglis]

On 2017-04-11 22:25, dodo . wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I report one thing about manpage for cygport.
> 
> Man page CYGPORT(1) seems to show old content about 'all' COMMAND.
> According to manpage CYGPORT(1), 'all' COMMMAND means 'run all of
> the above, excluding finish.'
> However 'download' COMMAND is excepted on actual performing.
> Thus, source patching with $(PATCH_URI} does not perform.
> 
> Latest README of cygport describes correct information.
> https://github.com/cygwinports/cygport/blob/master/README
> According to it, fetch(download) COMMAND is not included in 'all'.
> 
> I think manpage CYGPORT(1) should be updated.
> 
> Currently I am using Cygwin as follows.
> 
> $ uname -a
> CYGWIN_NT-6.1-WOW turtle0 2.8.0(0.309/5/3) 2017-04-01 20:42 i686 Cygwin
> 
> $ cygport --version
> cygport 0.24.0
> ...

Also available in /usr/share/doc/cygport/README, and the full manual 
from by launching or running:
	$ cygstart /usr/share/doc/cygport/html/manual/index.html
but those, usage, and manpage all omit some options, commands and 
alternatives, and do not state the preconditions necessary for 
commands to work, nor that steps already completed are skipped if the 
command is almostall|all.

From the current source, supported options are:

--help|-h|-?
--version|-v
--debug|-d
--32|-4
--64|-8

and commands are:

downloadall|fetchall|wgetall|getall
download|fetch|wget|get
prep|unpack
compile|build|make
check|test
inst*
postinst*
list
dep*
info*
homepage|web*|www*
package|pkg
diff|mkdiff|mkpatch
upload|up
announce
clean|finish
almostall|all
help
version

-- 
Take care. Thanks, Brian Inglis, Calgary, Alberta, Canada

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