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On Oct 31 21:15, Mark Geisert wrote: > On Sat, 31 Oct 2015, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > >On Oct 31 00:18, Jon Turney wrote: > >>On 30/10/2015 23:25, Mark Geisert wrote: > >>>I was confused by the SRC_URI= line in cygutils.cygport. Does that > >>>merely indicate where this package came from at the time the .cygport > >>>file was written, or does it denote a commitment by the maintainer to > >>>continue hosting the package from that URI? If the latter, that's why I > >>>was asking about access methods. Is SRC_URI required? > >> > >>SRC_URI is the URI for the upstream source. > >> > >>cygport's fetch (aka download) subcommand will fetch the upstream source > >>from the specified SRC_URI > >> > >>cygutils is somewhat a special case as cygwin is the upstream :) > >> > >>The sources are in CVS at pserver:anoncvs@sourceware.org:/cvs/cygwin-apps, > >>but the tarballs seem to be hosted on fruitbat.org at the moment. > >> > >>I think the best thing to do is to ask for that CVS to be migrated to git, > > > >Done: > > > > git clone git://sourceware.org/git/cygwin-cygutils.git > > > > Gitweb: https://sourceware.org/git/?p=cygwin-cygutils.git > > > >Mark, if you're going to maintain the project, you probably want to > >make changes to the git repo. For that you need ssh access to > >sourceware.org AKA cygwin.com. Pleae use the form at > > > > https://sourceware.org/cgi-bin/pdw/ps_form.cgi > > > >to request SSH access to sware. Project is "cygwin-apps", Use my > >email address for the approver field. > > > >>then the cygport can be written to fetch the source directly from a > >>specified tag in git, since this will avoid the need for you to make > >>tarballs and work out where to host them. > > > >E.g. > > I forgot one line here: > > GIT_URI="git://cygwin.com/git/newlib-cygwin.git" > > GIT_TAG="..." inherit git > This does seems like the best way to go, for several reasons. I've sent in > the SSH access request form. > Thanks much! Approved. You should get a mail from sware overseers shorty. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Maintainer cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat
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