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Re: broken setup.hint files


----- Original Message -----
From: "Gary R. Van Sickle" <g.r.vansickle@worldnet.att.net>

> That said, I have a few questions on this that I'd appreciate if
someone could
> clarify for me, as I'm trying to get a new and improved mutt package
together:
>
> - "The curr, prev, and test lines indicate which versions should be
used for
> which sections of that package. If any of them are valid, they replace
/all/
> versions in setup.ini."  What does that last sentence mean?  Actually
since the
> mutt packages will sort, I guess it's not that germain to me right
now, but it
> could still use clarification.

It means that rather than upset guess what is prev and what is curr, if
you specify (say) curr, and there is an old tarball there, it will not
get automatically included.

> - "Note that [setup.hint] must be in subdirectories named after the
package
> (i.e. latest/cygwin/setup.hint is for the cygwin package)."  So... do
I put my
> setup.hint in a latest/mutt-1.2.5i-6/setup.hint in my binary .tar.bz2?
Or do I
> provide three files, foo-nnn-n.tar.bz2, foo-nnn.n-src.tar.bz2, and
setup.hint?
> Or...?

Three files.

Rob


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