Re: cygport-0.9.3 in release-2

2008-11-09 Thread Charles Wilson
Yaakov (Cygwin Ports) wrote: They were called rollup patches. T.E.D. releases patches roughly every week, and then every month (or two, or three), he combines all patches dating back to an official release into a rollup patch -- and these rollup patches are in the shar-archive-auto-apply

Re: cygport-0.9.3 in release-2

2008-11-09 Thread Charles Wilson
Yaakov (Cygwin Ports) wrote: It only breaks the ABI (B?) if you do it the way you suggested: http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2008-05/msg00038.html Yes, the concept is the same: ABI breakage affects previously-built source packages but doesn't necessarily break API (IOW the .cygport wouldn't

Re: cygport-0.9.3 in release-2

2008-11-09 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin Ports)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Charles Wilson wrote: Even the rollup patch? ftp://invisible-island.net/${PN}/${PV}/${PN}-${PV}-20060909-patch.sh.bz2 Yes. It only breaks the ABI (B?) if you do it the way you suggested: http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2008-05/msg00038.html Yes,

Re: cygport-0.9.3 in release-2

2008-11-09 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin Ports)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Charles Wilson wrote: They were called rollup patches. T.E.D. releases patches roughly every week, and then every month (or two, or three), he combines all patches dating back to an official release into a rollup patch -- and these rollup

Re: cygport-0.9.3 in release-2

2008-11-09 Thread Charles Wilson
Yaakov (Cygwin Ports) wrote: Charles Wilson wrote: a) my example, ncurses, has a LOT (50 or so) official patches b) they are all gz-compressed; cygport might not support compressed patches in PATCH_URI Compressed single patches are supported in PATCH_URI since 0.3.5. Good to know. I