Re: I'd like to add and mantain a new pacakge: nix

2008-05-11 Thread Lee D. Rothstein
Marc Weber wrote: I've read the how to contribute a new package on the faq and started writing the cygport file. It was easy. The distfiles which I've created this way can be found on http://mawercer.de/dist Which is the recommended way of testing them? tar xfj -C / nix*.tar.bz2 ?

Re: I'd like to add and mantain a new pacakge: nix

2008-05-11 Thread Marc Weber
On Sun, May 11, 2008 at 11:27:45AM -0400, Lee D. Rothstein wrote: look at elements of your package components because I am curious about being a Cygwin developer/maintainer, and I have been struggling for some time to figure out how to improved Cygwin/GNU documentation/help. Interesting ..

Re: I'd like to add and mantain a new pacakge: nix

2008-05-11 Thread Lee D. Rothstein
Marc Weber wrote: * The hint file is not complete and appears to be some kind of gag? Can you recommend me one which you find complete ? I had a quick glance at some packages eg ftp://mirror.switch.ch/mirror/cygwin/release/cron/setup.hint and they don't seem to contain much more

Re: I'd like to add and mantain a new pacakge: nix

2008-05-11 Thread Lee D. Rothstein
* It would be quite helpful, if there was a NIX Intro 'man' page that gave the function of the package that I could only find described in the Cygport file. (package manager allowing) multiple versions of a package to be installed side-by-side, ensures that dependency

Re: I'd like to add and mantain a new pacakge: nix

2008-05-11 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sun, May 11, 2008 at 11:27:45AM -0400, Lee D. Rothstein wrote: Marc Weber wrote: I've read the how to contribute a new package on the faq and started writing the cygport file. It was easy. The distfiles which I've created this way can be found on http://mawercer.de/dist Which is the