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Re: Setup and Mintty
On Nov 18 10:30, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 18, 2011 at 11:59:06AM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> >On Nov 18 05:36, Andy Koppe wrote:
> >> On 17 November 2011 17:17, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> >> > the latest setup sources implement the mintty desktop and start menu
> >> > shortcuts. ??So, afaics, if you would just change the mintty package
> >> > so that it doesn't install its own shortcuts, we could update setup
> >> > on sourceware to the new version.
> >>
> >> A shortcut-less mintty package is here:
> >>
> >> http://mintty.googlecode.com/files/mintty-1.0.1-2.tar.bz2
> >> http://mintty.googlecode.com/files/mintty-1.0.1-2-src.tar.bz2
> >> http://mintty.googlecode.com/svn/tags/1.0.1-2/cygport/setup.hint
> >
> >Thanks.
> >
> >> As I'd mentioned before, I think the changeover needs to go like this:
> >>
> >> 1. Add Base category to mintty's setup.hint.
> >
> >Done.
> >
> >> 2. Wait a day for mirrors to catch up.
> >
> >We can even leave the weekend for that.
> >
> >> 3. Upload new setup.exe.
> >
> >I copied the new setup.exe, stripped and upx'ed to my home dir on
> >sourceware. Chris, can you please sign it and copy it over to the web
> >page?
>
> I'll do that when I see that some mirrors have caught up with the above
> change.
>
> >> 4. Upload shortcut-less mintty package.
> >
> >I'll do that afterwards.
>
> I think I have to do this when setup.exe is updated don't I?
Uh, yes, probably. I have uploaded mintty already to ~vinschen/mintty,
so you just have to move it over to the release area.
Corinna
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