Re: [PATCH]: mknetrel builds Guile #4: genscript

2002-07-10 Thread Jan Nieuwenhuizen
Christopher Faylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: That's swell. However, I'm not going to be moving. I don't want a whatever.sh script showing up in my sources. Yes, I understand. There was quite a thread about this... So, I guess this is another option. If you submit it as an option, I'll

Re: [PATCH]: mknetrel builds Guile #4: genscript

2002-07-10 Thread Charles Wilson
Robert Collins wrote: What I don't understand is the sudden rush. We are mere months away from full deb or rpm support - why try to shoehorn the existing tarball orientated tools into the same functionality these more mature tools have developed? Good point. There is no need to method

Re: [PATCH]: mknetrel builds Guile #4: genscript

2002-07-10 Thread Charles Wilson
Robert Collins wrote: My 2c: We settled on method 2 as a interim step before rpm or deb, to avoid build yet another tool. Doh! Correct. Enough said. Yep. Don't method 2-ize mknetrel --Chuck

Re: [PATCH]: mknetrel builds Guile #4: genscript

2002-07-09 Thread Jan Nieuwenhuizen
Christopher Faylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Tue, Jul 09, 2002 at 02:14:37AM +0200, Jan Nieuwenhuizen wrote: - autogenerate cygwin build script: $package.sh This looks like a prepackage function to me. No need to modify mknetrel. I think that you do not understand. This will

Re: [PATCH]: mknetrel builds Guile #4: genscript

2002-07-09 Thread Charles Wilson
Jan Nieuwenhuizen wrote: The script is a requirement for Method2, and I'd like to slowly move towards that packaging method. http://www.cygwin.com/setup.html isn't written in stone. If we want to add a method 3 which is: donwload current mknetrel copy the included script 'pkgname'

Re: [PATCH]: mknetrel builds Guile #4: genscript

2002-07-09 Thread Jan Nieuwenhuizen
Charles Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: If we want to add a method 3 which is: donwload current mknetrel copy the included script 'pkgname' into mknetrel/extra (*) run mknetrel -b (*) where 'pkgname' is the override script. That would be fine, too, IMO. Ah, now that would be smart

Re: [PATCH]: mknetrel builds Guile #4: genscript

2002-07-09 Thread Charles Wilson
Jan Nieuwenhuizen wrote: Ah, now that would be smart thing to do, why didn't I think of that? What about picking a directory for extra right now, let's say: /usr/share/mknetrel/extra and have individual packages all unpack their extra script there (maybe even junk most extra's

Re: [PATCH]: mknetrel builds Guile #4: genscript

2002-07-09 Thread Nicholas Wourms
Jan Nieuwenhuizen wrote: Charles Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: If we want to add a method 3 which is: donwload current mknetrel copy the included script 'pkgname' into mknetrel/extra (*) run mknetrel -b (*) where 'pkgname' is the override script. That would be fine, too, IMO. Ah, now

Re: [PATCH]: mknetrel builds Guile #4: genscript

2002-07-09 Thread Charles Wilson
Nicholas Wourms wrote: What about picking a directory for extra right now, let's say: /usr/share/mknetrel/extra and have individual packages all unpack their extra script there (maybe even junk most extra's from mknetrel-cvs itself)? Not yet. Since all of the scripts current in

Re: [PATCH]: mknetrel builds Guile #4: genscript

2002-07-09 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Jul 09, 2002 at 06:05:51PM +0200, Jan Nieuwenhuizen wrote: Christopher Faylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Tue, Jul 09, 2002 at 02:14:37AM +0200, Jan Nieuwenhuizen wrote: - autogenerate cygwin build script: $package.sh This looks like a prepackage function to me. No need to

Re: [PATCH]: mknetrel builds Guile #4: genscript

2002-07-09 Thread Christopher Faylor
Hmm. It's sort of sad when I make the effort to read the entire thread but still miss the point anyway. Why not just have mknetrel use a mknetrel file in the source directory if it finds one? I've been thinking about doing this for a while. Then there is no need to decide on a location for

Re: [PATCH]: mknetrel builds Guile #4: genscript

2002-07-09 Thread Charles Wilson
Charles Wilson wrote: Now, stop me if I get too 'method 2ish', but: [snip] unpack -src, giving: foo-1.2-3.mknetrel foo-1.2-3.patch foo-1.2.tar.gz Yes, this looks an awful lot like 'method 2' -- and we've got perfectly good example shell scripts for doing things the 'method 2' way.

Re: [PATCH]: mknetrel builds Guile #4: genscript

2002-07-09 Thread Robert Collins
- Original Message - From: Charles Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, July 10, 2002 1:49 PM This is counter to the RPM (and mebbe deb?) concept of shipping pristine sources. Is there some way to do this? deb ships pristine sources. unpack -src, giving:

Re: [PATCH]: mknetrel builds Guile #4: genscript

2002-07-09 Thread Robert Collins
- Original Message - From: Charles Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Charles Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, July 10, 2002 1:54 PM unpack -src, giving: foo-1.2-3.mknetrel foo-1.2-3.patch foo-1.2.tar.gz Yes, this looks an awful lot like 'method 2' -- and we've got