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RE: And we have a xfree cygwin package.. (What are they called?)
- From: "Robert Collins" <robert dot collins at itdomain dot com dot au>
- To: "Andrew Markebo" <flognat at flognat dot myip dot org>,<cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2002 16:22:35 +1100
- Subject: RE: And we have a xfree cygwin package.. (What are they called?)
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Andrew Markebo [mailto:flognat@flognat.myip.org]
> Sent: Wednesday, March 20, 2002 4:17 PM
> | Or, were you planning on keeping the separate .tgz files around too?
>
> separate .tgz? I The executable tgz's of the xfree package? I
> am considering giving it a try using them instead.. small
> ptoblem might be version numbering, can I put version numbers
> in the hints file? (the dist tgz files today is automagically
> built by xfree makefile(?) and therefore I don't want to
> change their name, to get it as easy as
> possible)
Yes, the version number for a file can be explicitly given, but if your
files are non-versioned, you will have mirror site headaches when
updates within an Xfree official release are done.
Versioning the tarballs takes only a couple of seconds - and can be
scripted.
Rob