From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 23109 invoked by alias); 15 Feb 2017 15:13:50 -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 22970 invoked by uid 89); 15 Feb 2017 15:13:45 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-2.4 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 spammy=H*i:sk:3c228f7, Hx-languages-length:1403, H*f:sk:3c228f7, H*MI:sk:3c228f7 X-HELO: out1-smtp.messagingengine.com Received: from out1-smtp.messagingengine.com (HELO out1-smtp.messagingengine.com) (66.111.4.25) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Wed, 15 Feb 2017 15:13:34 +0000 Received: from compute6.internal (compute6.nyi.internal [10.202.2.46]) by mailout.nyi.internal (Postfix) with ESMTP id B79FF20A88; Wed, 15 Feb 2017 10:13:33 -0500 (EST) Received: from frontend2 ([10.202.2.161]) by compute6.internal (MEProxy); Wed, 15 Feb 2017 10:13:33 -0500 X-ME-Sender: Received: from [192.168.1.102] (host86-184-210-45.range86-184.btcentralplus.com [86.184.210.45]) by mail.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTPA id 501FF2423E; Wed, 15 Feb 2017 10:13:33 -0500 (EST) Subject: Re: Problem with mksetupini To: Sunny Lin , cygwin@cygwin.com References: <3c228f7f-8af0-fbd6-8b60-ca8d0736b264@dronecode.org.uk> From: Jon Turney Message-ID: Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2017 15:13:00 -0000 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.7.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <3c228f7f-8af0-fbd6-8b60-ca8d0736b264@dronecode.org.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2017-02/txt/msg00198.txt.bz2 On 15/02/2017 14:08, Jon Turney wrote: > On 15/02/2017 07:51, Sunny Lin wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> I encountered a problem and hope someone here can help me through. >> >> I need to build a 32-bit Cygwin distribution with customized packages. >> I have calm package installed. I am learning to use mksetupini to >> create a setup.ini file. I use commands similar to the following but >> always generate an INI file with only a header, no package information >> in the file. >> >> mksetupini --arch x86 --inifile=setup.ini --releasearea=. >> >> I followed instruction in the following link and got the same result. >> https://cygwin.com/package-server.html > > Reading over that, it looks like step 2 is in need of a bit of updating > and might have led you astray. I fixed up those instructions a bit. > The directory you are pointing to as releasearea should contain x86/, > x86_64/ and noarch/ directories, which should contain a release/ > directory, which should contain the various package directories and > subdirectories. > > If that layout isn't followed, mksetupini won't be able to find the > packages and thus they won't appear in the output setup.ini It seems there is a problem with calm where it doesn't handle symlinks, as those instructions expect. I've pushed out an updated calm 20170215-1 package with a fix for that. Thanks for reporting this problem. -- 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