What package is in msys2 but not winrpm? This seems like a huge download to avoid writing a spec file and submitting it to the opensuse build service. Julia is also not using exactly the same ABI as msys2's toolchain so this isn't going to be reliable for C++ dependencies, or on 32 bit.
On Friday, May 27, 2016 at 11:51:13 PM UTC-7, Charles Barto wrote: > > Hello, I've recently needed to use some packages that were not available > in the WinRPM repositories but were in MSys2's mingw64 repo. I naturally > set out to build a package provider for MSys2, after some work figuring out > > The github repository is located at > https://github.com/barcharcraz/MSys2.jl and I'd love for a few people to > try it before I submit a pull request for METADATA. > > The build file will download and extract all of msys2 to a local > directory, and then update. It's a pretty large download (in the hundreds > of megabytes) so > try not to build the package on a slow connection. > > After downloading the distribution package the build script updates the > repositories, installs the latest version of pacman, then upgrades all > packages twice. > I need to do two calls to upgrade because when msys2 updates its runtime > you need to restart the shell. > > >
