On 2020-03-27 11:31, Thomas Wolff wrote: > Am 27.03.2020 um 17:27 schrieb Jon Turney: >> On 27/03/2020 16:15, Thomas Wolff wrote: >>> Am 27.03.2020 um 16:41 schrieb Jon Turney: >>>> On 27/03/2020 14:35, Thomas Wolff wrote: >>>>> Am 27.03.2020 um 13:21 schrieb Jon Turney: >>>>>> On 27/03/2020 10:17, Thomas Wolff wrote: >>>>>>> How does cygport upload work? >>>>>>> I previously uploaded with sftp but cygport apparently runs lftp and it >>>>>>> asks me for a password. >>>>>> >>>>>> This just seems to be a thing lftp does. >>>>>> >>>>>> If the key isn't coming from ssh-agent, it always asks for a passphrase. >>>>>> If the key doesn't have one, you can just hit enter (or type anything). >>>>> OK, works. Can lftp or cygport be configured so that lftp does not ask for >>>>> a password? Or to use sftp instead? >>>> >>>> I don't know of any configuration for lftp to turn off that behaviour >>>> (which >>>> is arguably a defect in lftp), but that's probably something you could >>>> investigate for yourself. >>>> >>>> I am not sure why lftp is used instead of sftp, possibly it is >>>> insufficiently scriptable to do what cygport wants to do. >>>> >>>>> Uploading the two Unicode packages, I got this response: >>>>> >>>>> ERROR: package '/sourceware/cygwin-staging/home/Thomas >>>>> Wolff/noarch/release/unicode-cldr' is not in the package list >>>>> ERROR: package '/sourceware/cygwin-staging/home/Thomas >>>>> Wolff/noarch/release/unicode-cldr/unicode-cldr-emoji-annotation' is not in >>>>> the package list >>>>> SUMMARY: 2 ERROR(s) >>>> >>>> Ah, right. >>>> >>>> I've updated cygwin-pkg-maint and made the appropriate adjustment. >>>> >>>> There still seems to be a problem with the form of the version number >>>> you've >>>> chosen, however. >>> Yes, calm complains about >>> >>> '-' in version >>> >>> but 36-1 is the version format used upstream. Do I need to convert it? >> >> Looking at http://cldr.unicode.org/index/download, I see it called 36.1 > Right. The download files are provided at https://github.com/unicode-org/cldr > where you can see release-36-1. >> >> The fact that the upstream filename contains '36-1' alone doesn't seem >> sufficient to grant an exception. > I think I'll put something like REPOVER=${VERSION//./-} into the cygport file > for the download then. > >>>> I am not quite clear how unicode-cldr replaces >>>> unicode-cldr-emoji-annotation, if we have anything which requires it to >>>> build, since it doesn't appear to provide the .pc file that did. >>> Please elaborate. I do not see any .pc file in the previous package. >>> The new package include /usr/share/unicode/cldr/common/annotations (which >>> the >>> previous one provided solely) and other subdirectories of >>> /usr/share/unicode/cldr/common. >> >> Maybe I am mistaken, but looking at the filelists in >> https://cygwin.com/packages/summary/unicode-cldr-emoji-annotation.html, >> package unicode-cldr-emoji-annotation contains >> /usr/share/pkgconfig/cldr-emoji-annotation.pc > I wasn't aware of that. Not sure, though, what it's good for. I'd prefer to go > without it unless it's missed by someone.
It's used mainly for X Window and utility builds with CLDR, and it would be better and easier just to keep it around with an updated version, if not in the original upstream package. -- Take care. Thanks, Brian Inglis, Calgary, Alberta, Canada This email may be disturbing to some readers as it contains too much technical detail. Reader discretion is advised.