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On 2/27/2013 21:59, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Feb 27 21:29, JonY wrote: >> On 2/27/2013 21:10, Corinna Vinschen wrote >>> >>> Just upload the test release to the release area and write a TEST mail >>> to cygwin-announce. Or is there anything special you'd like to do? >>> >>> >> >> I'm worried that I might break gcc installs if I overlooked something >> obvious. >> >> The upload will be overwriting the .hint files, java and libffi are >> empty packages (I could not get java to build yet). > > I'm not concerend about java (dum di dum), but why is libffi missing? > libffi only gets built when Java is enabled. >> I can't figure out >> how to pack the debuginfo package, it is always empty. > > Yaakov might be able to help here. > Hi Yaakov, I have gcc4_debuginfo_CONTENTS="usr/lib/debug/" in the cygport file, any ideas? >> Will you be able to rollback my uploads in case something does go wrong? > > In theory, yes. If you leave the dependencies in place for the "curr" > release, then the test release shouldn't interfere and testers will > have to care for the stuff themselves. Let's assume for a start, that > downmloaders of a gcc test package know what they are doing. > Now this brings up a good question. libgnat4.5 became libgnat4.7 in 4.7.2, likewise for libobjc2 to libobjc4. So you are saying that I should leave the runtime depends for 4.5.x? > Another way to distinguish the new gcc from the current on would be > perhaps to create a "gcc472" package set, distinct from the other gcc > packages. It could install itself into /usr/local, just for the test > period. > Yeah, I know, I know, no official package should install into > /usr/local. Maybe /opt would be fine for once, too. > That might be a saner approach to testing. Do I need to use postinstall to add it to PATH? If so, how do I do that?
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